Microsoft announces the addition of the new languages in Microsoft 365 Copilot which brings the total number of supported languages to 42. The newest editions among others are: Bulgarian, Croatian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, and Slovenian.
Microsoft 365 Copilot is an AI-powered tool designed to assist with tasks, search information, generate creative text formats, and code. It combines the power of large language models (LLMs) with business data and Microsoft 365 apps to unleash creativity, unlock productivity, and uplevel skills. In understands employee’s work context and provides professional level of security, privacy and compliance.
Microsoft 365 Copilot can be used within the Microsoft 365 productivity apps that employees use every day, like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams or from Business Chat (BizChat). BizChat is a central hub that brings together all the data—web data, work data, and line of business data—right in the flow of the work. BizChat turns all organizational content into a rich database of information and insight, enabling people to collaborate with Copilot like a partner and turning every piece of information into a business resource. For example, Microsoft 365 Copilot streamlines the process of creating comprehensive meeting notes by automatically summarizing discussions during the meeting – action items, and key points.
- Microsoft 365 Copilot in Word transforms writing with efficiency and creativity –so that users can create, summarize, comprehend, refine, and elevate documents. Users can also use enhanced capabilities like visualizing and transforming text into a table. Other capabilities also include adding onto existing prompts, drafting a document by referencing other documents and discovering information about documents. Microsoft 365 Copilot in Outlook helps manage the email inbox and create impactful communication more efficiently.
- Microsoft 365 Copilot in Outlook can summarize an email thread, suggest action items, replies, and follow-up meetings. It can also adjust length and tone when drafting an email.
The expansion of Microsoft 365 Copilot to support 12 additional languages highlights Microsoft’s commitment to making cutting-edge technology accessible to a wider audience across diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds. By introducing advanced tools in these languages, Microsoft not only acknowledges the distinct cultures and needs of users across these regions but also ensures that they can actively participate in and benefit from the technological advancements shaping the modern world.
Copilot improves over time by learning from us. Today, Microsoft 365 Copilot may not yet understand every colloquial expression or linguistic convention in each given language, as the large language models are specific to particular languages and varieties. Both the input and the output require training on a set of words.
The corporation launched Microsoft 365 Copilot in 2023 and since then it has been continuously improving its features understanding that individual businesses have different specific needs. Based on customers’ feedback, Microsoft has made more than 700 product updates and shipped over 150 new features this year. Now with GPT4o and enhanced orchestration, Microsoft dramatically improved the performance of Copilot in BizChat. Copilot responses are now on average two times faster, and response satisfaction has improved by 3X. That is why in the second wave of Microsoft 365 Copilot innovations, Copilot agents has been introduced. Copilot agents enable us to enhance Copilot’s capabilities by connecting to the organization’s knowledge and data sources. And their capabilities range from basic information retrieval to complex actions and self-learning, allowing individuals and teams to achieve new levels of productivity. Also, by using Copilot studio every employee becomes fully capable in creating their own agent in natural language, same as everyone today can create Excel spreadsheet or Power Point presentation.
By leveraging Copilot agents, businesses achieve new levels of productivity, supercharge their processes and expand innovation.
In a world where AI is rapidly transforming how we work, Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio offer new opportunities for applying AI to individual’s unique needs. Microsoft remains committed to making advanced AI accessible and valuable to everyone.