Finding the right AI tool

Which AI Tool is Most Suitable for Your Needs?

Following the previous blog post on identifying the appropriate AI for your requirements, it is only fair to provide a feature comparison. Therefore, I have included an analysis of some of the most popular AI chatbots to determine which one would best fit into your organisation.

AI Feature Comparison Table

Feature	Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat	Microsoft 365 Copilot	ChatGPT (GPT-4)	Google Gemini	Claude (Anthropic)	DeepSeek
Chat	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Web-grounded Chat (AI-powered)	✓ Powered by GPT-4o	✓ Powered by GPT-4o	✓  GPT-4-turbo	✓ Gemini 1.5	✓  Claude 2.1	✓ DeepSeek-V2
Work-grounded Chat (Organizational Data)	❌	✓	❌	❌	❌	❌
File Upload	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Code Interpreter	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Image Generation	✓	✓	✓	✓	❌	❌
Agents	✓	✓	✓	✓	❌	❌
Agents grounded in Web Data	✓	✓	✓	✓	❌	❌
Agents grounded in Work Data	Metered	✓	❌	❌	❌	❌
Autonomous AI Agents	✓	✓	✓	✓	❌	❌
Personal Assistant	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
AI in Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint	❌	✓	❌	❌	❌	❌
AI-based Actions & Reasoning	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Pre-built AI Models	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Copilot Control System / AI Management	✓	✓	❌	❌	❌	❌
Enterprise Data Protection (EDP)	✓	✓	❌	❌	❌	❌
IT & Agent Management	✓	✓	❌	❌	❌	❌
Analytics & Reporting	Limited	✓	Basic	Basic	Basic	Basic
SharePoint Advance management	❌	✓	❌	❌	❌	❌

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Summary:

Microsoft 365 Copilot is designed with an enterprise focus, whereas ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and DeepSeek are general-purpose AI chatbots.

ChatGPT and Gemini provide capabilities for code interpretation and file uploads, unlike Claude and DeepSeek, which have limited file support.

ChatGPT and Gemini also offer image generation, a feature not available in Claude and DeepSeek.

Microsoft 365 Copilot excels in enterprise integration, including applications such as Teams, Outlook, and Word, a characteristic absent in standalone AI models.

DeepSeek stands out as an open-source model primarily aimed at scientific and research tasks.

Now we have looked at what AI is the right one for your organisation depending on your business requirements we can start looking at how do we apply the enterprise data protection controls we need to safeguard the data we are going to be using. All this starts off with Microsoft Purview.