Copilot
What is Microsoft Copilot?
That depends on who you ask. ;) Microsoft Copilot is the new name for Bing Chat/Bing Chat Enterprise after the rebrand, see the announcement: Announcing Microsoft Copilot, your everyday AI companion.
During 2023 Microsoft introduced AI functionality in many parts of their products and services, copilots. The different categories embedded copilots, copilots as add-ons and build your own were explained in the video Understanding copilots at Microsoft.
Copilot can be seen from a marketing perspective, where there are branded products such as Copilot for Microsoft 365 and Copilot for Sales. Copilot can be seen from a general perspective and common for the different copilots are that they are powered by LLMs and they support users with complex cognitive tasks. In the article AI Explained the following definition is seen:
A copilot is an application that uses modern AI/LLMs like GPT-4 to assist people with complex (cognitive) tasks.
On the Microsoft Adoption pages the concept is explained as follows:
Microsoft offers a variety of Copilot assistants that can be adopted to enhance user productivity and creativity. Copilot is integrated into various Microsoft platforms and products, providing a more interactive and efficient digital workspace.
Copilot Studio
This is where you can build your own copilots. In November 2023, Microsoft Power Virtual Agents became a part of the Microsoft Copilot Studio.
- Microsoft Copilot Studio documentation
- Microsoft Copilot Studio guidance documentation
- Introducing Microsoft Copilot Studio and new features in Copilot for Microsoft 365
- Microsoft Power Virtual Agents, now part of Microsoft Copilot Studio
- Download the Microsoft Copilot Studio Icon
- Copilot Studio Guidebook by Sarah Critchley
- Copilot Studio Implementation guide
- Copilot Studio blog
- Copilot Studio website
- Copilot Studio Community
Copilot in Power Platform
- AI Copilot Overview - Power Apps
- Copilot in Power Automate cloud flows
- Copilot in model-driven apps
- Copilot in canvas apps
- Copilot in Power Automate for Desktop
- Copilot in Fabric & Power BI
- Copilot for Power BI
Don't miss the Copilot Cookbook for Power Apps!
Copilot in Dynamics 365
- Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 documentation
- Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot: your copilot for work
Copilot in/for Sales
Copilot for Sales is the current name of the stand-alone copilot to be used with Dynamics 365 Sales. Formerly known as Sales Copilot and even further back knows as Viva Sales. Copilot in Sales refers to the built-in copilot functionality in Dynamics 365 Sales. Copilot for Sales refers to the stand-alone copilot for Dynamics 365 Sales.
- Microsoft Copilot for Sales documentation
- What's new in Sales Copilot changing to Copilot for Sales
- Copilot for Sales Community page
- Copilot for Sales blog
- Microsoft Viva Sales is now part of Microsoft Sales Copilot
Copilot in/for Service
Copilot in Service refers to the built-in copilot functionality in Dynamics 365 Customer Service. Copilot for Service refers to the stand-alone copilot for Dynamics 365 Service.
- Microsoft Copilot for Service documentation
- Copilot for Service Community Page
- Copilot for Service blog
- Knowledge management best practices for Copilot ingestion
Other resources
- Microsoft Copilot Scenario Library
- Intro to Power Platform Copilots by April Dunnam as part of the Hack Together: Power Platform AI Global Hack 2023
- Getting Started with Copilot for Power Platform: A Guide for Computer Science Students
- AI Explained Microsoft article 2023-04-04
- 10 AI terms everyone should know Microsoft article 2024
- Introducing GitHub Copilot: your AI pair programmer
- Introducing a new Copilot key to kick off the year of AI-powered Windows PCs
- https://aka.ms/copilot/prompt_toolkit
- [AI learning hub https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ai]
- https://www.microsoft.com/sv-se/microsoft-copilot
- Copilot in Microsoft Developer pages
- https://aka.ms/Copilot/StarterKitDownload
- Microsoft Copilot in Wikipedia