Microsoft rolls out Copilot GPT Builder to all Pro subscribers

Lawsuits aside, Microsoft is moving ahead with the development of its Copilot AI chatbot (based in part on its investment in and partnership with OpenAI).

Today, executives at the Redmond-headquartered software giant, one of the world’s most valuable companies, announced the launch of Microsoft’s Copilot, a tool that lets users build and share customized, task-specific versions of chatbots. We announced that GPT Builder is now available to all users. Paid customers of his Copilot Pro tier ($30 per user per month).

The Copilot GPT Builder can be accessed by Copilot Pro subscribers on their desktop by moving their cursor to the right-hand menu of the Copilot web app and clicking the menu item labeled “See all Copilot GPTs” .

This will open an intermediate dialog box containing various “custom GPTs” (including new GPTs created by Microsoft) that the user can access, with an option at the top called “Create a new Copilot GPT.”

This opens a conversational chatbot interface by default, but users can separate this interface by using forms and fields with tabs on the left side of the screen labeled “Create” and “Configure,” respectively. You can switch between interfaces.

Similar to OpenAI’s similar GPT builder released four months ago, Microsoft’s Copilot GPT builder lets users[作成]You can select a tab and start typing plain language instructions on what kind of custom GPT you want to build with a conversational chatbot interface. Microsoft’s Copilot GPT Builder does all the programming on the backend and tries to create it for you.

As such, it can be a powerful tool that allows employees with access to it to create apps that address specific job responsibilities, tasks, ways of working, and workflows, without any technical or programming knowledge.

Co-pilot RAG time

Once a custom Copilot GPT has been created, users can access the Configuration tab with forms and fields for changing the Copilot GPT name, a short description of its functionality, and a description of its behavior (also in plain natural language). You can move. Additionally, you can also upload files for search extension generation (RAG). RAG is a technique used by many companies and enterprise users of AI large-scale language models (LLMs) that allows LLMs to access, manipulate, and retrieve data that was not originally included in the training set. Masu. .

“Copilot GPT is a custom version of Copilot with specific instructions and documentation for grounded (RAG) chat responses,” said Jordi Ribas, CVP, Head of Engineering and Product for Copilot and Bing. I am writing. Post to X.

For example, companies use RAG to connect OpenAI’s GPT-4, the LLM that powers the most advanced version of ChatGPT, to their internal document cloud and store information about company policies and human resources, including information the company has granted access to. ) can even be withdrawn. these files). It now appears that Copilot and its new custom user-built GPT also support such mechanisms to enable more precise information retrieval.

Copilot GPT Builder users can also turn web browsing and image generation features on and off using Microsoft’s controversial Designer AI app (based on OpenAI’s DALL-E 3 image generation model). Masu.

CoPilot GPT example

Brad Abrams, partner product manager at Microsoft, posted on LinkedIn (owned by Microsoft) links to two custom Copilots he created that all users, even non-Pro subscribers, can access through the Copilot mobile app. I said I could.

He posted two things:

• “Synonym Finder: A language expert that helps you find synonyms for words that cover a wide range of usage and are logically organized.
• OKR Assistant: Help software engineering teams create effective OKRs (objectives and key results).“

OpenAI is not involved

Despite the companies’ close relationship and similarities between their custom GPT Builders, OpenAI and Microsoft are reportedly not collaborating on Microsoft’s Copilot GPT Builder tool.

An OpenAI spokesperson told VentureBeat that the company is “not involved” in Microsoft’s GPT Builder.

Still, Copilot GPT Builder is apparently inspired by the example set by OpenAI’s GPT Builder and GPT Store, albeit at a slightly higher price (versus $20 per month for an individual subscription to ChatGPT Plus) , offers many of the same features.

Still, the fact that both companies pursued the idea independently may lend further credence to the report, which was published in 2012. information Late last fall, we learned that Microsoft was working to reduce its reliance on OpenAI. Most recently, Microsoft partnered with French open source AI startup Mistral to bring its latest closed source model, Mistral Large, to Microsoft’s Azure cloud service. Microsoft also previously developed the Orca family, Phi-2, and Deucalion.