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Microsoft announced this month Copilot’s plugins similar to GPTs in the OpenAI’s GPT store.
Existing plugins include Instacart, Kayak, Klarna, OpenTable, and Shop.
These plugins use the OpenAI schema to add custom functionality to the Microsoft Copilot experience. As explained in Roadmap, a plugin consists of an API, an API specification, and a plugin manifest.
These plugins provide users with general skills such as understanding, summarizing, predicting, recalling, translating, and generating content. It indexes content in the Microsoft Graph, such as the emails, chats, and documents that users have permission to access.
Microsoft Copilot uses the following process flow when the user asks a question, and it answers the question by searching for and using a plugin.
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