Comment by Quothling
6 days ago
I think Claude Cowork through the Microsoft thing which was copilot but is now named M365 (or something?) is likely creating every powerpoint resentation within our organisation at this point.
We have whatever AI is in teams transcribe every meeting, and it's scaringly good at it. It's also extremely good at sumerizing or finding things from pervious meetings when tasked. One disadvantage in this, is that I can see how stupid I sound on writing. I'll go "yeah, hmm, yeah, that's, yeah", but it really is pretty good.
I assume we're going to see a massive increase in AI with this Cowork inside the Microsoft client. We actually have a better tool available through a librechat where you can create and configure your own agents with the same filesystem access to your one drive, and a lot more tools and models than just Claude. Almost nobody has been capable of figuring out how to use it though, so they've been using the regular office365 copilot and it sucks so bad that a lot of people stopped beliving in AI.
It's ironic that Microsoft fumbling the ball on AI, but being very good at enterprise customers (especially non-IT) means that they'll likely be the company which is going to sell us AI tools that people will actually use. I have no idea why it's so hard for people to pick up the Librechat tool we're given access to through our equity fund. It's quite litterally a copy of ChatGPT where you can point-and-click configure an agent, but we're seeing that even employees who use a lot of ChatGPT privately don't use this tool professionally. Meanwhile everyone has been capable of using the Microsoft thing (that I personally think is less user friendly since you will need to add your configuration files to every promt).
"I have no idea why it's so hard for people to pick up the Librechat tool we're given access to through our equity fund"
That's because M365 is integrated with the whole Office/Exchange environment, especially in terms of security policies, etc. MS also guarantee that the data are private, this is very important for many companies both from the IP protection perspective and the liability to expose some users/customers data (think of GDPR regulations is Europe).
I don't know who is behind Liberchat, probably some good and friendly folks, but when it comes to privacy/security Microsoft has much more to loose and if shit happens it is easier to sue them than some random VC-financed company from the USA.