The new features arrive as part of the Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2 Spring updates. Many of the capabilities are available now, though some will start rolling out in the near futu

Learn more about Microsoft's Copilot’s latest updates, featuring AI-powered tools for meetings, design, and data analysis. Copilot’s AI tools

A new fine-tuning feature for Microsoft 365 Copilot will enable the genAI assistant to suggest ideas to users on the fly, based on company-specific training.

At this year's Build conference, Microsoft unveiled a major expansion of its agent-based AI platform, highlighting new tools to securely build, customize and orchestrate intelligent agents across Microsoft 365 and Windows.

Microsoft says that all of this tuning happens within the Microsoft 365 service environment. In simple terms, your data stays within your company’s secure Microsoft space, and Microsoft will not use it to train its own large language models.

Microsoft's Build conference showcased a strong AI push, featuring GitHub Copilot's evolution into an autonomous coding agent and the Windows AI Found

Build developer conference, Microsoft announced a significant update to its AI agent platform, adding support for low-code customization, multi-agent coordination, and new security standards for inter-agent communication in Windows 11.

Jay Parikh, a former Facebook execute who joined Microsoft last year, has been working on these new AI initiatives.

At Microsoft Build, Microsoft lays out what agents and agentic AI will mean for Copilot and you, with updated apps and a future where AI can control functions on your PC.

Copilot is likely to be a headliner at Build, and big changes to it could be on the way. Microsoft is reportedly testing alternative AI models from xAI, Meta, Anthropic, and DeepSeek as possible replacements for OpenAI technology in Copilot as the relationship between Microsoft and OpenAI becomes strained.

Reading, organizing, and answering emails are tedious and time-consuming tasks that are crucial to everyone's daily workflows, regardless of your industry or occupation. To help, Microsoft has added new Copilot features for Outlook mail and calendar that are now generally available to users.