Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft's AI assistant embedded across Office 365, Teams, and Windows
Updated April 2026
Overview
- Website
- copilot.microsoft.com
- Founded
- 2023
- Headquarters
- Redmond, WA
- Segment
- Customer & Sales AI
- Posture
- Enterprise Copilots
Product overview
Microsoft Copilot is Microsoft's AI assistant embedded across Microsoft 365 apps (Word, Excel, Teams, Outlook, PowerPoint), Windows, and Bing, powered by GPT models and grounded in organizational data via Microsoft Graph. Used by enterprises and individuals for drafting documents, analyzing data, summarizing meetings, and answering questions across Microsoft's ecosystem. Distinct for deep integration with Microsoft 365 data and apps, making it the dominant enterprise AI assistant by distribution.
Revenue model
M365 Copilot add-on pricing
Moat
Microsoft Copilot's primary competitive moat is its deep integration within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem and access to organizational data through Microsoft Graph, which competitors cannot replicate. This creates substantial switching costs—organizations already invested in Microsoft 365 (Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel, etc.) gain secure, compliant AI assistance that leverages their internal emails, documents, calendars, and knowledge repositories without requiring data migration to third-party systems, while competitors lack this native enterprise-grade integration and identity management framework.