by Microsoft •General AI Assistants
Microsoft's AI assistant for web research, work data, Microsoft 365 apps, agents and enterprise productivity.
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Core capabilities listed for Microsoft Copilot.
Generates original text from natural-language instructions or structured prompts.
Supports multi-step reasoning, planning, analysis and problem solving.
Retrieves and synthesizes information from live or indexed web sources.
Creates images from text, references or structured creative instructions.
Works across multiple modalities such as text, image, audio or video.
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Structured integrations recorded for Microsoft Copilot. A check mark means the integration mapping is tied to a verified source.
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Custom / usage-based — see official source
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Microsoft Copilot is Microsoft's AI assistant for web research, productivity and work-connected tasks across browser, desktop, mobile and Microsoft 365 experiences. In organizations, Copilot can ground responses in Microsoft Graph data that users already have permission to access, while Microsoft Copilot Chat provides web-ground Microsoft Copilot is provided by Microsoft and AI Orbit categorizes it under Chat & Assistants. Its structured capability profile includes Text Generation, Reasoning, Web Browsing & Search and Image Generation; field-level verification may still be pending for some capability mappings.
Microsoft Copilot is provided by Microsoft. Global technology company developing AI models, copilots, cloud AI infrastructure and developer platforms through Azure and Microsoft products. Within AI Orbit, the product is cataloged in Chat & Assistants, which describes its primary product category rather than the provider itself.
AI Orbit currently maps Microsoft Copilot to structured use cases including General AI Assistance and Question Answering. These are reviewed taxonomy mappings used for discovery and fit; field-level evidence may still be pending, so they are not presented as independently verified claims. Supporting cataloged capabilities include Text Generation, Reasoning, Web Browsing & Search and Image Generation.
Verified integration evidence on AI Orbit currently includes Excel, OneDrive, Outlook, PowerPoint, SharePoint and Teams. These are individually source-backed integration records, not a generic assumption based on the product simply advertising integrations. The provider may support additional integrations that have not yet been individually verified in this profile.
Microsoft says enterprise Copilot prompts, responses and Microsoft Graph data are not used to train foundation models. Consumer Copilot training behavior is controlled through user privacy settings. AI Orbit records the data-training policy as: Depends on plan / workspace settings. Microsoft Copilot enterprise data protection includes encryption, tenant isolation and Microsoft 365 security/compliance controls. Copilot honors existing Microsoft 365 permissions and governance. These statements reflect the verified provider evidence stored by AI Orbit; policies and certifications can change, so sensitive deployments should re-check the current official documentation.
AI Orbit currently has verified plan-level pricing data for Microsoft Copilot, including Official pricing / enterprise, Microsoft 365 Personal, Microsoft 365 Family and Microsoft 365 Premium. Exact rates, billing units, limits and verification dates are shown in the pricing section of this profile rather than compressed into a single potentially misleading price. Because providers can change prices and plan limits, check the linked official pricing source before making a purchase or production decision.
