Microsoft Copilot with Graph-grounded chat enables you to bring your work content and context to Microsoft Copilot’s chat capabilities. With Graph-grounded chat, you can draft content, catch up on what you missed, and get answers to questions via open-ended prompts— all securely grounded in your work data
Is Microsoft Copilot based on ChatGPT?
Separate Technologies: Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT are developed independently. Copilot is a product of GitHub (owned by Microsoft), and OpenAI develops ChatGPT. Different AI Models: Copilot is powered by OpenAI’s Codex model, a descendant of GPT-3 but fine-tuned specifically for understanding and generating code.
What is the function of Copilot?
Explore how to use Copilot
- Jump-start your documents. Bring your ideas to life—use Copilot to quickly create drafts on any topic in Word.
- Catch up in a flash. Transform long email conversations into short summaries with Copilot in Outlook for Windows.
- Create powerful stories.
Is ChatGPT better than Copilot?
Despite being designed for the same purpose, Copilot had some major advantages over ChatGPT, with the biggest perk being access to the internet for free. In May 2024, however, OpenAI leveled the playing field, unveiling upgrades to the free version of ChatGPT that matched Copilot’s features and then some.2
You should use ChatGPT if…
1. You want to experience the hype for yourself
2. You want free access to OpenAI’s latest model, GPT-4o
You should use Copilot if…
1. You want footnotes automatically added
2. You want more visual responses
What are the new features of Copilot?
Copilot in Excel now supports generating multiple formula columns from a single prompt. Ask one question, and Copilot can return two formula columns simultaneously. For instance, you can extract both the first name and last name from a single prompt, neatly separating the information into distinct columns.
Humans are hard-wired to dream, to create, to innovate. Each of us seeks to do work that gives us purpose — to write a great novel, to make a discovery, to build strong communities, to care for the sick. The urge to connect to the core of our work lives in all of us. But today, we spend too much time consumed by the drudgery of work on tasks that zap our time, creativity and energy. To reconnect to the soul of our work, we don’t just need a better way of doing the same things. We need a whole new way to work.
Today, we are bringing the power of next-generation AI to work. Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot — your copilot for work. It combines the power of large language models (LLMs) with your data in the Microsoft Graph and the Microsoft 365 apps to turn your words into the most powerful productivity tool on the planet.
“Today marks the next major step in the evolution of how we interact with computing, which will fundamentally change the way we work and unlock a new wave of productivity growth,” said Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, Microsoft. “With our new copilot for work, we’re giving people more agency and making technology more accessible through the most universal interface — natural language.”
Copilot is integrated into Microsoft 365 in two ways. It works alongside you, embedded in the Microsoft 365 apps you use every day — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams and more — to unleash creativity, unlock productivity and uplevel skills. Today we’re also announcing an entirely new experience: Business Chat. Business Chat works across the LLM, the Microsoft 365 apps, and your data — your calendar, emails, chats, documents, meetings and contacts — to do things you’ve never been able to do before. You can give it natural language prompts like “Tell my team how we updated the product strategy,” and it will generate a status update based on the morning’s meetings, emails and chat threads.
With Copilot, you’re always in control. You decide what to keep, modify or discard. Now, you can be more creative in Word, more analytical in Excel, more expressive in PowerPoint, more productive in Outlook and more collaborative in Teams.
