Microsoft has recently announced the general availability of Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft 365 Chat. These two AI assistants are designed to help you with your work.
Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft 365 Copilot is an AI assistant that helps you reason over all your business data in the context of your enterprise. It includes enterprise-grade security, privacy, compliance, and responsible AI to ensure all data processing happens inside your Microsoft 365 tenant. Microsoft 365 Copilot is based on Bing Chat Enterprise, a generative AI service that adds commercial data protection to Microsoft Copilot. It ensures that chat data is not saved, Microsoft has no eyes-on access, and user data is not used to train large language models (LLM). Bing Chat Enterprise is available as a standalone for $5 per user per month and is included in Microsoft 365 E3 and Microsoft 365 E5.
Microsoft 365 Chat
Microsoft 365 Chat is the new hero experience for Microsoft 365 Copilot. It combs across all your data – emails, meetings, chats, documents, and more – plus the web to solve your most complex problems at work. It’s integrated into the Microsoft 365 Apps millions of people use every day, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and more.
Key Differences
Here are some key differences between these three options:
| Feature | Microsoft Copilot | Bing Chat Enterprise | Microsoft 365 Copilot |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Copilot UX | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Bing Chat (ILM + Web) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Commercial Data Protection | No | Yes | Yes |
| Enterprise Security, Privacy, Compliance | No | No | Yes |
| Microsoft 365 Apps | No | No | Yes |
| Microsoft 365 Chat | No | No | Yes |
As you can see from the table above, Bing Chat Enterprise provides commercial data protection to Microsoft Copilot, making it an ideal choice for businesses that require high levels of security and privacy.
On the other hand, Microsoft 365 Copilot offers enterprise-level security, privacy, compliance, and responsible AI to ensure that your data is processed within your Microsoft 365 tenant. It also includes all the features of Bing Chat Enterprise. Microsoft 365 Copilot will be available for enterprise customers at $30 per user per month starting from November 1.
Finally, Microsoft 365 Chat goes far beyond simple questions and answers. It combs across all your data sources—your emails, meetings, chats, documents, and more—as well as the web to solve your most complex problems at work. And it is integrated with the Microsoft 365 Apps including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and more.
In summary:
- Bing Chat Enterprise adds commercial data protection to Microsoft Copilot.
- Microsoft 365 Copilot offers enterprise-level security, privacy, compliance, and responsible AI.
- Microsoft 365 Chat goes far beyond simple questions and answers.