Microsoft has announced at its Build developer conference that customers can now connect its Microsoft 365 Copilot to other applications via “plugin” integrations. This will give the generative AI assistant access to data from thousands of third-party software tools. The AI assistant, which uses OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 large language model (LLM), was unveiled in March and automates processes in Word, Outlook, Teams, and other apps in the M365 suite. The addition of plugins shifts the M365 Copilot from a “product to a platform strategy” for Microsoft, according to Ritu Jyoti, group vice president for worldwide artificial intelligence (AI) and automation research at IDC. Businesses taking part in the M365 Copilot early access customers will be able to access 50 plugins built by software vendors, including Atlassian, Adobe, ServiceNow and Mural, with “thousands more” available in the coming months, Microsoft said.
2023-06-02 15:23:12
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