Applies To

The type of information Copilot uses to answer your prompts depends on your license. These tables describe what information Copilot has access to when you're using your work or school account.

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Work or school account: Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat without a Copilot add-on license

Overview

Where are responses grounded?

Example prompt

Copilot Chat is available to businesses that have a Microsoft 365 subscription at no additional cost. With it, you can access features like text generation, image generation, and basic data analysis.

Public web data. Copilot will search the web and base its answer on up-to-date sources. Its responses are powered by the latest large language models (LLMs).

"Summarize current events from the last 6 months."

Work or school account: Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat with a Copilot add-on license

Overview

Where are responses grounded?

Example prompts

With the paid add-on license for Copilot, you get all the functionality of Copilot Chat plus the ability to access business emails, create Teams meeting summaries, summarize information in Word or Excel, create drafts of PowerPoint presentations, find information in OneDrive and SharePoint, and more.

Data from either the web, work (specific to your organization), or a combination of both.

Note: Copilot can only reference internal organizational data that you have access to. For example, if there's work data from another team's site that you don't have access to, Copilot won't include it in its response.

"What’s the latest version of our product roadmap?"

"Summarize the Q3 marketing strategy from the last team meeting notes."

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