Microsoft 365 Copilot redesigned with new search, image, and notebook features

Microsoft is launching a recently designed mentation of its Microsoft 365 Copilot app soon. The app, which is utilized by businesses arsenic a hub for Office documents and now Microsoft’s AI tools, is moving a small person to the regular Copilot user features with updated AI-powered search, a caller Create diagnostic for generating images utilizing OpenAI’s GPT‑4o model, and Notebooks that run similar miniature AI projects.

While Microsoft 365 Copilot won’t person the slick-looking location interface recovered connected the user version, it present defaults to the chat interface, which is starting to look akin betwixt some versions. The chat interface present has representation and personalization, overmuch similar the user mentation of Copilot, truthful that it starts to physique up an knowing of your enactment and preferences to respond accordingly.

“We re-built the app, Microsoft 365 Copilot, from the crushed up,” explains Jon Friedman, firm vice president of plan and probe astatine Microsoft, successful an interrogation with The Verge. “We’re mounting the signifier for the adjacent question of computing, and that signifier is this thought that Microsoft 365 Copilot volition statesman to genuinely recognize you done its memory, its understanding, and that it volition commencement to bring you the close tools that you need.”

Those tools see a caller AI-powered endeavor hunt that tin entree third-party apps similar ServiceNow, Google Drive, Slack, Confluence, and Jira to springiness businesses much applicable hunt results adjacent if they don’t usage everything Microsoft has to offer.

The Microsoft 365 Copilot app shares the aforesaid styling arsenic the user mentation now, and the Pages feature, which archetypal debuted successful September is simply a large portion of this redesigned app. Pages is simply a almighty mode to enactment collaboratively with AI agents, arsenic you tin stock Pages with colleagues and they tin enactment connected them arsenic if they’re a co-edited Word document. “We took the aforesaid exemplary arsenic Loop has, it works successful Outlook, successful Teams, and everyplace successful the ecosystem,” says Friedman.

Microsoft has besides added Notebooks to Microsoft 365 Copilot. “Notebooks are project-based notebooks that let you to signifier accusation astir a acceptable of information successful the Office Graph,” explains Friedman. Think of Notebooks arsenic a postulation of pages, links, and files that you tin stock with Copilot truthful it’s focused straight connected answering questions astir a circumstantial project.

There’s besides a caller Copilot Create conception of the app, which is fundamentally the improvement of Microsoft’s Designer merchandise which lets you make images, videos, surveys, and different contented for Office documents. It utilizes OpenAI’s GPT‑4o model, truthful if you really privation AI-generated Ghibli art successful your PowerPoint presumption past that’s present possible.

At the bosom of this updated app is simply a caller cause store, wherever you tin easy entree AI agents from Microsoft oregon 3rd parties. The researcher and expert agents volition beryllium portion of this store, and immoderate AI agents volition beryllium instantly disposable from the near pane. “We’re trying to optimize the full near pane for content, alternatively than applications,” explains Friedman.

The user and commercialized Copilot apps are inactive not each that akin yet, but I get the content from Friedman that determination needs to beryllium immoderate separation betwixt the two. “In user you gain the close to spell beauteous acold and beryllium truly personal, astatine enactment with each of the professionalism that exists there’s a steadfast tension,” says Friedman. “In my caput Copilot tin beryllium 1 branded experience, and it goes from lukewarm and idiosyncratic to performant and professional, and that’s what we’ve been moving connected together.”

Microsoft is besides launching this refreshed Copilot for businesses astatine the aforesaid clip it reveals its annual enactment inclination index, that’s based connected a survey of businesses, Microsoft 365 telemetry, and LinkedIn hiring and labour trends. Microsoft believes its information shows that there’s a caller benignant of enactment emerging, what it calls the “Frontier Firm” that is built astir AI tools and and humans becoming the bosses of AI agents.

“As agents progressively articulation the workforce, we’ll spot the emergence of the cause boss: idiosyncratic who builds,
delegates to, and manages agents to amplify their interaction and instrumentality power of their vocation successful the property of
AI,“ says Jared Spataro, main selling bureau of AI astatine enactment astatine Microsoft. ”From the boardroom to the frontline, each idiosyncratic volition request to deliberation similar the CEO of an agent-powered startup.“

An “agent boss” surely sounds similar the latest mentation of an AI punctual engineer, but Microsoft besides warns that businesses volition person to look astatine however galore AI agents are needed and “how galore humans are needed to usher them.” Microsoft has been pitching AI agents arsenic a mode to automate tasks, but arsenic these get progressively much analyzable and capable, however agelong until we spot the emergence of adjacent much intelligent agents that don’t request humans to brag them around?

Correction, April 23rd: An earlier mentation of this nonfiction stated that Pages was new, but it was archetypal announced successful September.