Microsoft Copilots: The Latest News and Features

We’ve collected the main news about Microsoft AI innovations on different stages: official preview, early access and current availability.

Here are some of the latest updates and news:

?? Team Copilot is coming to implement AI to your team, department, or even whole company. Its functionalities will be available for “Copilot for Microsoft 365 licenses” holders. Copilot in Teams will:

?? Manage the meetings’ agenda, track time, create tasks and notes during your calls.

?? Moderate Teams chats by answering users’ questions, summarizing the information, highlighting tasks, searching needed information through the chats and so on.

?? Assist Project Managers by creating tasks, filling out the information, assigning tasks to the necessary people, monitoring progress and deadlines with notifying team members.

In addition, Teams will open a possibility to use custom emojis and reactions.

?? SharePoint will receive super capabilities with general availability this summer: each user will be able to create and share a custom copilot from SharePoint. Marcel Land said: For Europe users this means that they can create custom copilots on the documents inside the matter they select. It also means that users can only select curated documents / data without being afraid of security, hallucinations, or use of wrong-non curated data. As each matter will have this ability you can create those “custom copilots” per matter or even create multiple copilots per matter.”

It will allow developers to build file-centric and document-centric applvications that can be integrated with custom Copilots by SharePoint Embedded (now generally available).

?? Outlook will soon get the capability to directly insert third-party Adaptive Card-based Loop components from services like Jira, Trello, Confluence Cloud, Lucid Software, Mural and Priority Matrix.

?? Microsoft is implementing new AI tools for call centers: from summarizing emails to crafting PowerPoint slides, Copilot is now ready to transform how call centers operate.

?? Copilot Studio will give its users an opportunity to create agent custom copilots (now available only for early access members). According to Microsoft, this system has the potential to streamline long-running business processes and operations in customer on-boarding.

??Copilot Studio connectors for Microsoft Fabric are coming soon, according to the tech giant, joining Copilot Studio’s more than 1,400 Power Platform, Microsoft Graph and Power Query connectors.

??Microsoft Copilot in Azure will simplify your work life. 微软 representatives said that within their Azure AI offering, it has 20 “responsible AI” tools with more than 90 features.

??MaaS, fully called Azure AI Models-as-a-Service, is coming soon with Phi-3-vision multimodal model made by Microsoft with at 4.2 billion parameters (it will complement the Phi-3 family of AI SLMs available in Azure).

??Azure AI Studios announced the ability to develop custom copilot apps, organize multiple interoperating APIs and models, test them and successfully deploy at scale with further monitoring. Azure AI Studio’s model catalog has more than 1,600 models with frontier and open large language models (LLMs) and small language models (SLMs) for users to compare benchmarks.

??The AI Studio and Azure OpenAI Service now have previews for prompt shields and threat detection.

??Azure API Center became generally available to help with managing API sprawl. Due to this, it will be possible to turn to API Center for discovery, consumption and governance of APIs regardless of type, life-cycle stage or deployment location, according to the tech giant.

??Azure AI Speech announced preview of speech analytics and universal translation for voice-enabled apps.

??Azure AI Content Safety now has a preview of custom categories, which allow users to make specific content filters deployable within an hour to protect against emerging threats, sensitive data leaks and so on.

Besides, Microsoft has upgraded Defender for Cloud and now it has a native integration. This functionality will help to protect AI apps from code to cloud, according to the tech giant. The tool has AI security posture management features for finding AI services, AI tools and vulnerabilities.

??GitHub Copilot with 1.8 million subscribers, has a private preview for its first set of first- and third-party extensions, including a GitHub Copilot for Azure.

??Copilot in Fabric is now available: this AI-powered analytics platform provides opportunities for create dataflows, schedule and monitor workflows and data pipelines, test a new real-time hub, use conversational question-and-answer approach, leverage low-code and no-code experience, generate functions and trigger actions, build machine learning models and visualize results.

Microsoft Power Platform is revolutionizing software development by introducing Copilot into Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents. Now, all you need to do is simply describe your solution in everyday language, and Copilot will create it through an intelligent, low-code experience.

??Power Automate gained more AI-powered automation tools, including AI flows for outcome-based automation. Users will have opportunities to use Power Automate for generating automation plans, adjusting, analyzing process objectives, automatically creating and selecting actions, identifying outcomes. These options will be available according to the early access program.

??Robotic process automations (RPAs) for AI recorder also will be accessible by using screen sharing and voice coaching. The recorder can detect user interface changes in app interfaces, and users can make edits with natural language in Copilot.

???Power Apps now has native Git integration for synchronizing environments with Git repositories. Power Apps Studio now allows for source code viewing and use in a readable YAML format.

The current goal of Copilot is to become your everyday AI companion for all work and life tasks.

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