What is Microsoft 365 Copilot?

The age of AI is here, and the most groundbreaking revolution to come from it is the advent of the natural user interface. With generative AI, users’ natural human language has become the ultimate coding language, and Microsoft Copilot is the everyday AI companion that brings it to life across the entire Microsoft ecosystem. Prompts can be issued to Copilot from popular Microsoft 365 apps, such as Word, Teams, Outlook, Excel, and more thanks to new embedded AI functions or new Copilot Chat windows throughout the ecosystem.

Where more widely available generative AIs run the prompts against a generalized LLM, Copilot is able to send it to your organization’s Microsoft Graph to gain your specific context, data, and history before sending it along to its LLM. After the LLM returns a result, it’s run through your Microsoft Graph again to ensure the proper data and context are being applied before sending a final output to the user.

Microsoft Copilot is a generative AI companion that uses your company’s specific data and context to create more appropriate and accurate outputs for your business’s needs.

How does it help your business?

  • Unlocking Knowledge

    As part of the Microsoft enterprise suite, Copilot is fully integrated with your company’s data. Your calendars, emails, messages, meetings, documents, and talent structures. This is why the Microsoft Graph is so important—it brings your context to its data analysis.
  • Maintaining Compliance

    Copilot comes with the Microsoft Enterprise-grade security and compliance measures thousands of organizations already trust built in. It never stores your prompts or uses your data to train the OpenAI foundational model it runs on without your explicit permission.

    Your generative AI usage is kept entirely within your enterprise’s digital walls, and the same Microsoft security you’ve always trusted continues to secure them.

Playlist: How to Use Microsoft 365 Copilot

Explore our curated playlist on YouTube@SYSCOMGS, designed to make learning how to use Copilot within popular Microsoft 365 tools such as Word, Teams, and Excel easier. Find out how Copilot can automate daily tasks and improve efficiency.