Microsoft adds ‘deep reasoning’ Copilot AI for research and data analysis

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After Google and OpenAI offered up AI quality connected Tuesday, Microsoft has followed with announcements of its own, including details of 2 “deep reasoning” agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot that it claims are the archetypal of their kind, dubbed Researcher and Analyst, arsenic good arsenic caller capabilities for customized AI agents. Researcher relies connected OpenAI’s heavy probe AI exemplary to propulsion disconnected “complex, multi-step research,” on with entree to third-party information via connectors to sources similar Salesforce oregon ServiceNow truthful that concern customers tin deduce insights from crossed their tools.

Analyst is based connected the o3-mini reasoning exemplary from OpenAI, and Microsoft claims that with chain-of-thought reasoning, it’s susceptible of turning earthy information into spreadsheets, moving Python codification that you tin presumption portion it’s running, and run connected the level of a skilled information scientist, pulling unneurotic reports similar this 1 (pdf).

Those tools are scheduled to commencement rolling retired successful April to Microsoft 365 Copilot licence holders successful an aboriginal entree program, on with caller autonomous cause capabilities that are starting to rotation retired present successful Copilot Studio.

Microsoft claims the caller cause flows successful Copilot are almighty capable to “automate immoderate task you tin imagine” with rule-based workflows that see AI actions. The LinkedIn announcement describes situations similar an cause travel that directs feedback emails to the close team, but we’ll person to spot it successful enactment to find retired however that’s amended than adding a checkbox oregon two, oregon however good its “low code” acquisition truly works, and if it tin present connected the promises AI companies are making astir agents.