Microsoft updates Copilot AI assistant for Microsoft 365

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Microsoft has announced a major update to its AI assistant Copilot for subscribers of its Microsoft 365 cloud suite, which includes Office, Outlook apps and OneDrive storage.

Here's What We Know

The main new feature is priority access to OpenAI's more advanced GPT-4 Turbo artificial intelligence model. It provides significantly enhanced capabilities for processing long text queries and faster and more complete responses, including those based on analysing user work data.

In addition, Copilot has removed restrictions on the number of messages per dialogue and the number of simultaneous sessions of communication with an AI assistant. Also next month, users will be given 100 "boosts" to quickly generate images in Microsoft Designer.

According to the company, Copilot is now able to help users work efficiently with email, meeting materials and other work information. Data privacy is maintained by anonymising and encrypting data before sending requests to the cloud.

The company noted that the updated Copilot meets the security requirements of US federal agencies, to which it will become available within a year.

Flashback

OpenAI introduced GPT-4 Turbo in November 2023 at the first Dev Day developer conference in San Francisco. The model offers a much larger "context window" for user input for long prompts - 128,000 tokens compared to 32,768 for older GPT-4 models.

Microsoft launched Copilot for 365 in September 2023. Subscriptions cost $30 per user per month (annual commitment). Microsoft 365 Business Standard, Business Premium, E3, E5, or Office 365 E3 or E5 is also required.

Go Deeper:

Microsoft has integrated the GPT-4 Turbo and DALL-E 3 models into Copilot

Source: VentureBeat