Responsible AI is Microsoft's set of principles — fairness, reliability, safety, privacy, security, inclusiveness, transparency, and accountability — for trustworthy AI. AB-731 covers aligning an AI strategy with responsible AI policies.
Generative AI is a class of AI that produces new content such as text, images, and code from patterns learned in training.
Microsoft 365 Copilot is the generative AI assistant embedded across Microsoft 365 apps that grounds responses in your work data.
Microsoft Copilot Studio is the low-code platform for building and customizing agents and copilots.
Microsoft Graph is the data layer that exposes Microsoft 365 content and signals and grounds Copilot responses in your organization's data.
Foundry Tools are the Azure AI capabilities — including Azure Vision in Foundry Tools, Azure AI Search, and Microsoft Foundry — mapped to business needs.
Prompt engineering is the practice of crafting effective instructions to get better results from a generative model.
RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) grounds a generative model's answers in retrieved business data to improve accuracy.
Grounding is anchoring an AI response in relevant, trusted data so it reflects your business context.
A fabrication is a plausible-sounding but incorrect output produced by a generative model.
Responsible AI is Microsoft's set of principles — fairness, reliability, safety, privacy, security, inclusiveness, transparency, and accountability — for trustworthy AI.
An AI council is a cross-functional governance body that guides AI strategy, oversight, and alignment across an organization.
An AI champions program is an adoption initiative that develops internal advocates to drive AI usage across teams.
Researcher is a Microsoft 365 Copilot agent that performs deep, multi-step research across work and web sources.
Analyst is a Microsoft 365 Copilot agent that reasons over data to produce analysis and insights for decisions.
Total cost of ownership (TCO) is the full cost of an AI solution over its lifetime, including licensing, usage tokens, and operations.