In addition, Copilot has been made available to all types of companies who can use it in various Microsoft 365 services. Anyone who uses Microsoft 365 Copilot for just under 30 euros per month and user subscribed, can access the extensive advantages of Microsoft’s AI and, for example, optimize business processes with specially created agents.
But since many companies are not willing to accept Microsoft’s subscription offer for Copilot 365, the company is now delivering the new one Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat is an alternative. Employees in companies can access the free chat with GPT-4o support and use AI agents in a pay-as-you-go context.
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This is what the Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat offers: “Automate repetitive tasks and business processes”
With the new offer, Microsoft wants to encourage even more companies to use AI. The subscription requirement for the Microsoft 365 Copilot model will initially be outsourced. While the use of the AI chat is free of charge with the new Copilot chat model, the use of AI agents is billed based on usage. Jared SpataroMicrosoft’s CMO for AI in work context, explained told tech publisher The Verge already, where the innovation can be placed in competition with other tools:
It’s free and secure AI chat that’s GPT-powered. You can upload files so it’s very comparable to the competition, in fact we think even at this level it bests the competition.
This free chat, which is protected by a Copilot control system and provides data protection, offers users, among other things, the opportunity to conduct market research or research on the web, to prepare for and follow up meetings and to facilitate the creation of documents. Microsoft also explains:
(…) The file upload feature allows you to add documents to the chat and, for example, ask Copilot to summarize key points in a Word document, analyze data in an Excel spreadsheet, and suggest improvements to a PowerPoint presentation (…). You can also quickly create AI-generated images for campaigns, product launches, and social media posts.
The agents, in turn, leave themselves Create Agent Builder in Copilot Studio. Above all, they are intended to carry out repetitive tasks and drive automation processes. This works in customer service or creation contexts. The use of this helpful AI support in messages is calculated. This means that companies can pay one US cent per message (pay-as-you-go), buy meter message quotas in the Copilot Studio or pay $200 for 2,500 messages per month. The group provides an example calculation for use.
A hypothetical agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat uses data stored in Microsoft Graph to answer employee questions about HR policies. Yesterday, the agent consumed 200 generative answers and 200 tenant Graph grounding for messages. Therefore, it would cost 6,400 messages or $64 for that day.
A hypothetical autonomous agent responds to and routes inbound sales orders from customers. Yesterday, it consumed 100 generative answers, 100 tenant Graph grounding for messages, and 800 autonomous actions. Therefore, it would cost 23,200 messages or $232 for that day.
Normal answers correspond to one message, generative answers correspond to two messages and autonomous actions of the agents correspond to 25 messages. Microsoft explains exactly how these answers can come about and how the prices differ in a dedicated blog post and in a YouTube video including an Agents demo.
Copilot Chat is only intended to serve as an introduction
With Copilot Chat, Microsoft wants to make AI work easier for many users in companies and generate a little revenue through the sporadic use of agents. Above all, this model, a kind of compromise, is intended to get companies and their employees used to using high-performance AI tools. This could lead to more companies taking out a subscription to Microsoft 365 Copilot sooner or later. This offers the main advantage of being able to access the Personal Assistant in services such as Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Teams, etc. And only this subscription model allows the use of agents based on corporate work data from the Microsoft Graph and Graph Connector related to your own company.
If interested, users can test the free and paid versions of the 365 Copilot app. Spataro, who hopes for even more users, adds to The Verge:
We had Bing Chat Enterprise that we renamed, and despite the fact that the naming journey has been hard to track and it’s hard to find the product, we have a remarkable number of users on it. What we find is that when you start to use it, you become accustomed to and appreciative of the value that it can provide at work.
You can find even more details and visual demos on the possible uses in the video about the new model, which could be of interest to many companies.
Yusuf MahdiExecutive Vice President und Consumer Chief Marketing Officer Microsofts, explained in 2024 why using Copilot can make sense for Microsoft users in their everyday work:
Copilot for Microsoft 365 is even more powerful for organizations because it works across your entire universe of data at work — including emails, meetings, chats, documents and more, plus the web. With natural language prompts like ‘Tell my team how we updated the product strategy,‘ Copilot can generate a status update based on the morning’s meetings, emails and chat threads. Copilot is also integrated into the apps millions of people use every day, including Microsoft Teams (which is not available with Copilot Pro). Copilot jump-starts your creativity in Word, analyzes data in Excel, designs presentations in PowerPoint, triages your Outlook inbox, summarizes meetings in Teams – whether you attended or not – and so much more (…).
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Source: onlinemarketing.de
