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Microsoft Copilot

by Microsoft

An AI assistant from Microsoft, powered by models like GPT-4, integrated across Windows, Edge, and deeply into Microsoft 365 apps, designed to enhance productivity by assisting with drafting, summarizing, analysis, and search, leveraging user data within the M365 ecosystem (with appropriate licenses).

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Overview

Microsoft Copilot represents Microsoft's suite of AI assistants, leveraging technologies like OpenAI's GPT models alongside Microsoft's own AI advancements. It manifests in various forms: a web-based chat interface (similar to ChatGPT but with web grounding), integrated into Windows and Edge, and most significantly for professional use, as Copilot for Microsoft 365. This version integrates directly into apps like Word, Outlook, Teams, Excel, and PowerPoint, allowing users to invoke AI assistance using their own organizational data (emails, documents, meetings, chats) as context. Potential legal applications include drafting emails in Outlook based on context, summarizing documents in Word, generating meeting summaries in Teams, or finding information across the firm's M365 tenant. Crucially, Copilot for Microsoft 365 is designed with enterprise-grade security and privacy, meaning organizational data stays within the firm's M365 boundary and is not used to train the underlying foundation models. However, accuracy still requires verification.

AI capabilities

  • → NLP
  • → Text Generation
  • → Summarization
  • → Code Generation (web)
  • → Image Generation (web)
  • → Data Analysis (Excel)
  • → Search Grounding
  • → Contextual understanding within M365 data.

Pricing

Model: Web/Windows Copilot: Free (with ads/limitations), Copilot Pro (\~$20/month for individuals). Copilot for Microsoft 365: \~$30/user/month (requires prerequisite M365 Business/Enterprise license).

Pricing details: Free web version. Copilot Pro \~$20/month. Copilot for M365 \~$30/user/month (plus M365 license cost).

Integrations

  • • Deeply integrated with Microsoft 365 suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, Loop, etc.).
  • • Connectors via Copilot Studio allow integration with other enterprise systems.

What sets it apart

  • ★ Deep integration into the Microsoft 365 ecosystem
  • ★ Ability to securely leverage organizational data (with Copilot for M365)
  • ★ Enterprise-grade security and compliance built-in (for M365 version).

Compliance & security

Copilot for Microsoft 365 inherits compliance from the M365 platform (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA BAA support, GDPR/CCPA).