Explanation:
Box 1: Yes
Yes - Microsoft 365 Copilot can use its own model knowledge to make the response of a prompt more specific.
Microsoft 365 Copilot utilizes its extensive internal model knowledge, in combination with grounding on your organization's data, to provide specific, relevant, and actionable responses.
While Copilot heavily leverages "grounding"--using Microsoft Graph to pull in your emails, chats, and documents--it also relies on the underlying Large Language Models (LLMs) to understand context, infer meaning, and fill in details.
Box 2: Yes
Yes - Microsoft 365 Copilot can use business data that will provide additional context to make the response of prompt more specific.
Microsoft 365 Copilot leverages your organization's business data to enhance the accuracy and relevance of its responses through a process called grounding. By connecting to the Microsoft Graph, Copilot can access, analyze, and synthesize information from your emails, chats, documents, calendar, and meetings.
Box 3: Yes
Yes - Microsoft 365 Copilot can use the latest information from the web that will provide additional context to make a prompt more specific.
Microsoft 365 Copilot uses web grounding to incorporate the latest information from the internet into its responses. This process allows Copilot to provide context that goes beyond its initial training data and your internal organizational files.
How Web Context Enhances Prompts
Real-Time Information: Copilot can access current events, such as latest news, regulatory shifts, or quarterly earnings, ensuring responses aren't limited by a training data cutoff.
Automated Search Queries: When a prompt requires external context, Copilot automatically generates a focused search query (using a few keywords) and sends it to the Bing Search service.
Direct URL Referencing: You can explicitly provide a web page URL in your prompt (e.g.,
"Summarize this article: [URL]") to force Copilot to extract and use information directly from that specific source.
Comprehensive Synthesis: In many scenarios, Copilot can combine this web data with your internal work data (from Microsoft Graph) to provide a unified answer that is both organization- specific and globally current.