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Microsoft launches AI productivity assistant M365 Copilot in Australia with leading companies

  • Microsoft launches M365 Copilot Early Access Program in Australia with initial customers including AGL, Data#3, Bupa, NAB, Powerlink Queensland, Rest Super and Suncorp.

  • M365 Copilot combines large language models with Microsoft 365 data to boost productivity across apps like Teams, Word, PowerPoint, Excel.

  • Financial services firms see generative AI as a competitive advantage - NAB and Suncorp testing Copilot to improve productivity.

  • Energy and construction sectors need productivity gains - AGL and Powerlink piloting Copilot to help workforce adapt to industry transformation.

  • Microsoft provides guided, secure rollout supporting responsible AI principles while leveraging existing Microsoft 365 security and compliance policies.

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Microsoft and Datadog are well positioned to benefit from the fast-growing demand for generative artificial intelligence (AI) software, with Microsoft's exclusive partnership with OpenAI and access to the GPT models on Azure and Datadog's leadership in observability software verticals and recent innovations in generative AI.
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Microsoft announced that it will bundle its CoPilot AI into a single, unified assistant across all of its products, aiming to transform the relationship between technology and users in a new era of personal computing.
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Microsoft is opening an AI hub in San Francisco called the AI Co-Innovation Lab, offering resources and assistance to startups and companies looking to integrate artificial intelligence into their work.
Microsoft has rolled out Copilot, a generative AI tool, to all Windows 11 users, allowing them to chat and interact with the AI assistant for various tasks and functions, although it is still in the early stages and limited in its capabilities.
Microsoft stands to profit from the growing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) through its strategic moves in the field, which include integrating generative AI tools into its suite of productivity tools and its sizable investment in OpenAI's ChatGPT, potentially generating significant additional revenue and profits.
Generative artificial intelligence, like ChatGPT-4, is playing an increasingly important role in healthcare by helping individuals manage complex medical issues and potentially leading to new discoveries and treatments, according to Peter Lee, Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Research and Incubations. Despite its remarkable capabilities, Lee emphasized that GPT-4 is still a machine and has limitations in terms of consciousness and biases. Major companies like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta have heavily invested in AI, and Microsoft has integrated ChatGPT into its Bing search engine and Office tools.
Microsoft Copilot, an AI assistant that lives within Microsoft 365 apps, has the ability to access and compile sensitive data, posing potential risks for information security teams.
Microsoft is expanding its rollout of AI tools for corporate users, including an AI-powered copilot for writing emails and an intelligent writing assistant for suggested edits and improvements, with the tools being made available to more corporate clients starting on November 1.
Microsoft's Copilot AI is a suite of AI tools that function as a digital personal assistant, offering various productivity and entertainment features such as summarizing text, generating images, transcribing audio, and connecting to external devices, and can be enabled on Windows 11 through the latest update and disabled through settings or PowerShell commands.