GitHub first launched its copilot in 2021, and Microsoft 365 Copilot became generally available a few months ago. These AI assistants often use the term copilot to indicate how generative AI capabilities embedded in workflow tools can augment and assist people in performing tasks and prompting for information more efficiently.
The term copilot has caught on, and now many platforms have added embedded AI assistant capabilities as copilots, including Appian AI Copilot, Check Point Infinity AI Copilot, Creatio Copilot, ExtremeCloud IQ CoPilot, Freshservice Freddy AI, Nice Enlighen Copilot, OpenText Co-Pilot for ALM, PagerDuty Copilot, Planview Copilot, Salesforce Einstein Copilot, SAP Joule, and Tableau. Many other platforms, such as Coveo’s Relative Generative Answering, Quickbase AI, and LaunchDarkly’s Product Experimentation, have embedded virtual assistant capabilities but don’t brand them copilots.
