The rebrand name for the enterprise-focus version of the artificial intelligence (AI) Microsoft 365 Copilot chatbot is getting new features. Microsoft is rolling out many improvements in Microsoft 365 apps as well as a new Copilot Page feature.
The latter is a multiplayer AI feature which allows different users to collaborate on a project.
Copilot Agents, the purpose-specific mini chatbots are also being roll out for Microsoft’s enterprise clients.
Microsoft also highlight that more new features will be introduce in the next two months.
New Features of Microsoft 365 Copilot
In a blog post, Microsoft given details of the new features of the business-focused Copilot.
Copilot Pages is a unique feature allowing enterprise users to collaborate.
You can create a share space where both Copilot and humans can add and edit information for a project.
To use this, customers can open Copilot and run a query.
The response can be open as a separate page that other organisation users can access.
When adds, they can use it as a Word page and add tables, links, text, and images.
You can also prompt Copilot to add information.
Microsoft said this feature is currently available to select businesses in beta and will be generally available later this month.
Also, many Microsoft 365 apps are also getting new AI features.
Microsoft Copilot in Excel with Python will allow users who do not know coding to run advanced analyses such as forecasting, risk analysis, machine learning tasks, and many more.
All of this can be done by typing a natural language prompt to the chatbot.
It is also available in public preview.
Microsoft PowerPoint is getting a Narrative builder feature which uses Copilot to generate the first draft of a presentation with a single prompt.
It can generate an outline with editable topics.
Microsoft said that in the future, users will be able to add files to the outline to let the AI generate a more refine draft.
Microsoft Copilot in Teams can now process conversations across spoken words and written text in the chat and combine them to generate a more accurate transcript.
Outlook is also getting a Prioritise feature that will analyse the inbox to show the emails that require an urgent action by the user.
You will be able to teach Copilot specific topics in future, keywords or people which are important.
Any email containing them will be mark as a high priority.
This feature will be available later 2024.
Copilot in Microsoft Word will let users reference emails and meetings alongside documents.
You can run a simple prompt to ask the AI to take context from these sources to generate a draft.
OneDrive is also getting an AI feature that can process all the files save on the cloud server to help users find what they’re looking for.
Copilot Agents are finally being roll out to enterprise users.
These can be understood as mini chatbots that can be program for a specific function.
This chatbot can also be customise with specific datasets to ensure the output is accurate and relevant.
These are autonomous agents, not requiring the users to repetitively send prompts to have them perform a task.
