

Since announcing Copilot, Microsoft has rapidly integrated the AI assistant into everything from Teams to Word and Excel.

However, critics of the technology have questioned generative AI’s reliability in a workplace context and raised concerns around data governance.

Google also plans to integrate generative AI across its Workspace app suite, while Slack, Zoom, Box and many others are adding the technology into their respective platforms. Microsoft is one of many business software vendors building generative AI into workplace productivity and collaboration products. At the time, CEO Satya Nadya said the technology would “radically transform how computers help us think, plan and act ” Copilot AI assistants are also in the works for the company’s Dynamics 365 business apps and security tools. Microsoft unveiled the M365 Copilot in March after striking a partnership to bring OpenAI’s Chat-GPT 4 technology to its software products. This includes new ways to use Copilot with Outlook, PowerPoint, and Whiteboard, and a new data “map” to help businesses integrate the AI tool, the company said Tuesday. Microsoft will expand customer trials of its Microsoft 365 Copilot AI assistant to 600 businesses as it continues to integrate the chatbot across its portfolio of Office apps.
