Microsoft confirms 365 Co-Pilot AI will be 'natively integrated' into Edge

There are vanishingly few places in Microsoft's business ecosystem that remain untouched by January's OpenAI deal, with GPT-4 backed chatbot and generative capabilities coming to Office products like Word and Excel, Bing Search, and integrated directly into the Edge browser. During the Microsoft Build 2023 conference on Tuesday, company executives clarified and confirmed that its 365 Copilot AI -- the same one going into Office -- will be "natively integrated" into the Edge browser. Microsoft 365 Copilot essentially takes all of your Graph information -- data from your Calendar, Word docs, emails and chat logs -- and smashes them together, using the informatic slurry in training an array of large language models, to provide AI-backed assistance personalized to your business. "You can type natural language requests like'Tell my team how we updated the product strategy today,'" Lindsay Kubasik, Group Product Manager, Edge Enterprise wrote in a Tuesday blog post. "Microsoft 365 Copilot will generate a status update based on the morning's meetings, emails and chat threads."