In a preview of its artificial intelligence windfall, Microsoft said it would charge at least 53% more to access new features in its widely used Office software.

The company also said it would immediately offer a more secure Bing search engine to businesses to address their data-protection concerns, increase their interest in AI, and compete with Google.

The company said employees are looking to use AI tools to help them unlock creativity and productivity at work — 70% say they would delegate as much work as possible to AI according to our Work Trend Index. But using AI tools that aren’t built for the enterprise inadvertently puts sensitive business data at risk. As organizations adopt AI, they want to be confident their data is protected.

“Bing Chat Enterprise gives your organization AI-powered chat for work with commercial data protection. With Bing Chat Enterprise, user and business data are protected and will not leak outside the organization. What goes in — and comes out — remains protected”, Microsoft said.

Microsoft said Bing Chat Enterprise unlocks work-related generative AI. Microsoft 365 Copilot offers a new way to work by reasoning over all your business data in the context of your enterprise and asking and answering questions from the web. When broadly available, Microsoft 365 Copilot will cost $30 per user per month for commercial customers in E3, E5, Business Standard, and Business Premium.

Microsoft will launch an early access programme for Security Copilot, which uses GPT-4, the latest version of the OpenAI Large Language Model, in applications like ChatGPT.

At Microsoft's Inspire 2023, Security Copilot's early access programme, Purview Insider Risk Management's bring-your-own-detections, and Mobile Threat Defence for stand-alone Defender for Business users were announced.

Earlier this year, Microsoft Corp. introduced Microsoft 365 Copilot, which will bring powerful new generative AI capabilities to apps millions of people use every day like Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Microsoft Teams and more.

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