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

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

Analyst is based connected the o3-mini reasoning exemplary from OpenAI, and Microsoft claims that pinch chain-of-thought reasoning, it’s tin of turning earthy information into spreadsheets, moving Python codification that you tin position while it’s running, and run connected the level of a skilled information scientist, pulling together reports for illustration this 1 (pdf).

Those devices are scheduled to commencement rolling retired successful April to Microsoft 365 Copilot licence holders successful an early entree program, on pinch caller autonomous supplier capabilities that are starting to rotation retired now successful Copilot Studio.

Microsoft claims the caller supplier flows successful Copilot are powerful capable to “automate immoderate task you tin imagine” pinch rule-based workflows that see AI actions. The LinkedIn announcement describes situations for illustration an supplier travel that directs feedback emails to the correct team, but we’ll person to spot it successful action to find retired really that’s amended than adding a checkbox aliases two, aliases really good its “low code” acquisition really works, and if it tin present connected the promises AI companies are making astir agents.