Microsoft has launched Microsoft Copilot Studio, a low-code improvement software for customizing Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 and constructing standalone AI assistants.

Launched November 15, Microsoft Copilot Studio is obtainable as software-as-a-service and is at the moment out there in a free trial. Customers can strive it out at microsoft.com.

Microsoft Copilot Studio is meant to make it easy to construct and publish a plugin on to Copilot for Microsoft 365, utilizing a drag-and-drop, low-code method that features logic and knowledge connectivity to reply questions based mostly on enterprise knowledge and processes. Builders can use Copilot Studio to customise Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 for their very own enterprise eventualities. Additionally they can use it to construct and publish standalone copilots and customized GPTs (generative pre-trained transformers) with the fitting entry, knowledge, person controls, and analytics.

A graphical builder in Copilot Studio permits connectivity to back-end APIs and actions and the constructing of generative responses over enterprise data sources resembling information, SharePoint, and web sites. In eventualities the place tight enterprise management is required, generative responses will be supplemented with customized, manually created matter flows by way of the graphical builder.

New plugins will be created from present platform elements together with knowledge sources, connectors, and AI prompts. There are also greater than 1,100 prebuilt connectors resembling SAP, Workday, and ServiceNow for connecting with enterprise knowledge. Microsoft additionally will allow integration with OpenAI companies and can quickly allow improvement of customized GPTs inside Copilot Studio.