Introduction to Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft Copilot and Azure Stack AI are the complete set of technologies for extending and building your own AI-powered applications. The AI platform is the framework that Microsoft Copilot is built on, and it's the most advanced platform for creating AI capabilities and solutions.
The AI platform offers primary innovation opportunities that help you:
Extend and build on top of Microsoft Copilot.
Build your own copilot.
Create and automate with AI throughout your business processes.
The building blocks for these solutions include:
Robust, comprehensive, global infrastructure - With more than 60 data center regions worldwide, Microsoft offers a powerful infrastructure. We work closely with our partners across the industry to incorporate innovation from Microsoft and from the industry at large, from power to the data centers to the network, including accelerators.
Extensive data services - Our data services, such as Fabric, offer a single platform in a unified experience for every data professional. These data services help reduce the cost and effort of integrating analytics services while simplifying your data estate with seamless integration across layers of the stack.
Machine learning capabilities - A critical element of any next generation AI app is the ability to incorporate your data into the experiences. Services like Azure Cosmos DB use vector search to retrieve the most relevant data for the models to reason over, making it an excellent choice for intelligent apps at near infinite scale.
Several foundation models - The AI platform offers diverse foundation models from AI innovators across the industry, from trillions of parameter language models that require powerful Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) in Azure, to task-specific small-language models (SLMs) that are capable of running locally on GPU-powered Windows devices. Whichever combination of models you decide to take advantage of, you have the full life cycle toolchain to help you responsibly build, customize, train, evaluate, and deploy the latest next generation models. With tools like Azure AI Studio, you can do everything from training your own models, grounding existing models with your data, creating prompt flows, and more.
These building blocks are wrapped in Microsoft's industry-leading approach to responsible AI, AI safety, and security.
Extend Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft Copilot is an AI-driven partner that an individual or an organization guides. It uses generative AI to assist humans with complex cognitive tasks. The more complex the task, the greater the value that Copilot delivers. Copilot is designed to provide that in-context, AI-powered guidance, and assistance across all devices, bringing you the resources that you need whenever you need them. However, because every organization is unique, you should customize that experience to fit your needs.
To customize your Microsoft Copilot experience, you could:
Add conversational controls. - You could add critical guardrails or controls over conversational topics regarding legal requests, compliance, or sensitive HR topics that require extra layers of sensitivity.
Create unique business processes or workflows. - While Microsoft Copilot helps you achieve most of your goals, you might need to create processes or workflows that align with your specific business practices, such as expense management, user identity management, and more.
Enter your own data into the knowledge base. - If you have a diverse technology portfolio that your business functions already know, you could enter your own data that extends beyond Microsoft Graph into Copilot’s knowledge base.
Track creators and makers. - As you customize and fine-tune your organization's entire Copilot experience, you might want to have a central, manageable location that tracks who’s building these customizations and what they’ve built.
These examples are only a few potential reasons for customizing Microsoft Copilot.
Build your own copilot
You can build your own copilot experiences and solutions by using the end-to-end AI toolchain.
The pace of AI innovation at Microsoft has accelerated quickly. The reason why we can move at such a fast pace is because Microsoft Copilot is built on top of Azure AI, a single platform that includes the following components:
Several categories of AI capabilities - These capabilities include Microsoft advanced AI services, purpose-built AI search, Azure Machine Learning, and Azure AI Studio.
AI toolchain and app services - Developers can use these services to create their own copilot experiences. Additionally, you can use the foundational building blocks, such as the AI infrastructure, the foundation models that are trained on that infrastructure, and your own business data, to make those copilots relevant to you.
With AI infused across the entire healthcare ecosystem, you can:
Improve employee experiences across the organization.
Empower clinical teams achieve more.
Accelerate innovation with your own AI.
