Microsoft announced the introduction of Copilot to OneDrive cloud storage

Microsoft has announced plans to integrate its Copilot chatbot into its OneDrive cloud storage service. The new artificial intelligence-based functionality will be available to users as early as this month.

Here's What We Know

Copilot for OneDrive will act as a virtual research assistant. It will be able to find, summarise and extract relevant information from a wide range of file formats, including documents, presentations, tables, PDFs and HTML pages.

Users will be able to give Copilot commands in natural language, such as "summarise a document by key points" or "create a table of drink sales for the week broken down by day". The chatbot will also be able to answer specific questions about file content, list pros and cons of projects, and highlight recent relevant documents.

Other features include creating lists of FAQs, outlines, and proposal outlines based on existing data. When sending Word documents, recipients will be able to immediately see the generated summary in an email without having to open the file itself.

The option with Copilot will be built into the web version of OneDrive, as well as file viewers in Microsoft Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive itself. For enterprise and education customers with a subscription to Copilot for Microsoft 365, access to the tool will open in April.

Source: The Verge