Microsoft 365 Copilot: A Smarter Way to Work

Microsoft 365 Copilot is a powerful AI assistant integrated into Microsoft 365 apps like Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Teams. It's built using OpenAI’s models (like GPT-4) and Microsoft's own Graph data (your emails, calendar, documents, etc.), helping users be more productive directly within the tools they already use.
Microsoft Copilot can create content, give helpful suggestions, and automate tasks in tools like Windows, Microsoft 365, and GitHub. Microsoft is also adding new features and ways to use Copilot all the time.
- These are the apps you already know: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, etc.
- Here, you interact directly with the AI assistant.
- In Word, you can ask Copilot to draft a report.
- In Excel, you can ask it to analyze data and create a chart.
- In Teams, you can ask it to summarize meeting notes.
- Microsoft Graph pulls together all your files, emails, calendar events, chats, and documents across the Microsoft ecosystem.
- When Copilot needs information to answer a question or create something, it fetches data from Microsoft Graph.
- You ask, “Summarize my last three emails with John.”
- Copilot uses Microsoft Graph to find those emails across Outlook and Teams.
- ChatGPT-4 → To understand your requests, write text, answer questions.
- DALL·E 3 → To create images from text prompts.
- You ask, “Make a presentation about renewable energy.”
- The OpenAI model understands your request and creates the first draft of slides.
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