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Copilot for Microsoft 365 is now available for all businesses, large and small by John Callaham In November 2023, Microsoft officially launched Copilot for Microsoft 365 Enterprise customers, specifically for large companies that had signed up for Microsoft 365 E3 and E5 enterprise plans. The cost to access the Copilot generative AI features was set up as $30 a month per person. Today, Microsoft announced an expansion of that effort. Copilot for Microsoft 365 is now available for all businesses, both big and small. Now, customers with Microsoft 365 Business Premium and Business Standard plans can add Copilot and all of its features and uses. Like the Microsoft 365 Enterprise plans, the smaller Business Premium and Business Standard plans are $30 a month per person. Not only is the service expanding to more businesses, but Microsoft is also ditching the previous 300-seat minimum to get Copilot added to a Microsoft 365 business subscription. Now, there is no minimal seat amount needed, which means a single person who runs a business on their own can add Copilot with just one seat required. If any customers are still on the older Office 365 E3 and E5 plans, they can also access Copilot for the first time without the need to have a Microsoft 365 account. Finally, any commercial business customers can go through the many different Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider partners to subscribe to Copilot for Microsoft 365. Microsoft also offered up an update on Copilot for Microsoft 365 since it launched in November. Since it became generally available in late 2023, the list of companies that use the service has expanded to include Visa, BP, Honda, Pfizer, Accenture, KPMG, and PwC. These new announcements come on the same day as Microsoft's reveal of Copilot Pro. It will give individuals more features and more powerful access to the Copilot AI compared to the current free version for the cost of $20 a month.

Microsoft expands Copilot access for education customers by Taras Buria Microsoft has announced the expansion of its Copilot with commercial data protection to more customers. Starting in early 2024, all faculty and higher education students (ages 18+) will be eligible for Copilot with commercial data protection, formerly Bing Chat Enterprise. That will let them use Microsoft's AI-powered chat with access to GPT-4, DALL-E 3 image generator, and other features without sharing prompts and responses with Microsoft for future model training. Access to Copilot with commercial data protection will require a school Microsoft Account. Microsoft says students can use Copilot to summarize articles, get step-by-step explanations, improve writing skills, get feedback on their work, brainstorm ideas, and more. Jonathan Fozard, Associate VP at Florida State University, said the following about how Copilot improves education: Artificial intelligence has the power to revolutionize higher education. Our partnership with Microsoft has allowed us to improve learning for students and support innovative research across Florida State University through an automated, safe, and reliable platform. I am excited to see what our next generation of leaders can achieve with tools such as Copilot. In addition to giving access to Copilot with commercial data protection, Microsoft will soon offer Copilot for Microsoft 365 to faculty and staff. Starting January 1, 2024, education clients will be able to access Copilot for Microsoft 365 at $30/user per month. As a reminder, Copilot for Microsoft 365 combines large language models (LLMs) with your organization's data for better productivity. That data includes emails, meetings, chats, documents, and more in addition to standard features, such as answers or image generation. Microsoft also reminded about the company's Customer Copyright Commitment, which ensures clients are protected from copyright claims when using generative artificial intelligence. You can learn more about Microsoft's efforts to expand Copilot to more users in a post on the Microsoft Education Blog.

Microsoft replaces Bing Chat with Copilot, and Copilot with commercial data protection by Taras Buria Microsoft has unveiled several changes to its chatbots powered by artificial intelligence to "simplify the user experience and make Copilot more accessible to everyone." Starting today, Bing Chat and Bing Chat Enterprise is simply Copilot. Microsoft 365 Copilot is now Copilot for Microsoft 365, and Microsoft Sales Copilot turned into Copilot for Sales. Copilot with commercial data protection will be available starting December 1, 2023, in Microsoft 365 F3, E3, E5, Business Premium, and Business Standard. Other customers needing the benefits of Copilot with commercial data protection will be able to get it for $5/mo. Copilot with commercial data protection offers the same benefits as regular Copilot, but ensures Microsoft cannot access or use your data for AI training. In response to Neowin's request about the discontinuation of the Bing Chat brand, Microsoft said the following: Bing remains a prominent brand and technology powering many Copilot experiences while continuing to be a leader in the search industry. In addition to new names, Microsoft unveiled Copilot Studio and a role-based Copilot for Service. Copilot Studio allows customers to connect additional data using pre-built or custom plugins, create personalized workflows, and control the experience across the organization using dedicated IT tools. You can check out how Microsoft's Copilot versions compare with each other below: Copilot for Microsoft 365 also received several new features to improve your productivity. You can make it more personal with new customization options, such as visualized data and bullet points over paragraphs. Copilot in Teams can answer questions about the meeting without retaining records of interactions once the meeting is over. Copilot in Outlook will help you prepare for meetings with invitations, related emails, and the necessary documents, generating a synthesized summary. In addition, it will create thread summaries and extract crucial info. Copilot for other Office apps, such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, will help you quickly see the changes made by other people in shared documents, gain deeper insights and pull data from the Web into Excel, and connect to your enterprise media library for PowerPoint presentations. Update 15:00 ET: The article and title were updated to clarify that the CoPilot Pro branding is not a new or existing product.