Overview of Microsoft Copilot

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What is Microsoft Copilot with commercial data protection?

Microsoft Copilot (formerly Bing Chat Enterprise) is your everyday AI companion, providing AI-powered chat for the web. Whether researching industry insights, analyzing data, or looking for inspiration, Copilot gives users access to better answers, greater efficiency, and new ways to be creative. When eligible users sign in with their work or school accounts (Entra ID), Copilot adds commercial data protection.

Copilot provides access to powerful AI and is built on the multimodal large language model GPT-4 and the text-to-image model DALL-E 3. It’s grounded in the Bing search index to provide responses with the most current information and verifiable citations for transparency. And it's designed in line with our AI principles.

Copilot is a public web service available to all users on copilot.microsoft.com, bing.com/chat, or through Copilot in Microsoft Edge and Copilot in Windows. Copilot is also available through the Copilot, Bing, Edge, Microsoft Start, and Microsoft 365 mobile apps.

Commercial data protection explained

To help business and educational organizations protect corporate data, Copilot adds commercial data protection when eligible users sign in with their work or school accounts (Entra ID).

Commercial data protection means both user and organizational data are protected:

  • Prompts and responses aren't saved
  • Microsoft has no eyes-on access
  • Chat data isn't used to train the underlying large language models

Unlike Copilot for Microsoft 365, Copilot has no access to organizational data in the Microsoft 365 Graph.

Commercial data protection applies to users with eligible work or school accounts wherever Copilot is available.

Feature differences with commercial data protection

When commercial data protection applies to a user’s Copilot experience, there are some distinct feature differences from using Copilot without commercial data protection. Some of the more prominent differences include:

  • Chat history: Not currently supported. Copilot doesn't retain previous chats, nor does it make chat history available to users or the organization.
  • 3rd-party plugins/actions: Not currently supported to prevent commercial data from being sent to external providers.

Some of these feature differences are temporary.

Resources

  • Read the Copilot FAQ
  • Watch this video on Copilot fundamentals
  • Download and customize adoption resources (user-training deck, email series, and more) in the Copilot adoption kit
  • Visit the Copilot Lab for tips on creating effective prompts

Copilot hub

Microsoft offers Copilot experiences in many products, giving you AI-powered features that deliver tailored insights and intelligent solutions. Find documentation, training, and other technical resources for Copilot in many Microsoft products here.