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Microsoft is inclose a “ deep inquiry ” AI - powered pecker in Microsoft 365 Copilot , its AI chatbot app .
There ’s been a stack of deep enquiry agent launched recently across chatbots , including OpenAI ’s ChatGPT , Google ’s Gemini , and xAI ’s Grok . Powering them are reasoning AI models , which possess the ability to think through problems and fact - check themselves — attainment arguably important for conduct in - depth inquiry on a subject .
Microsoft ’s flavors are called Researcher and Analyst .
Researcher combines OpenAI ’s inscrutable research model — which powers the company ’s ownChatGPT rich researchtool — with “ advanced orchestration ” and “ cryptic hunt capabilities . ” Microsoft claims that Researcher can do analyses , include developing a go - to - market place scheme and create a quarterly paper for a customer .
As for Analyst , it ’s establish on OpenAI ’s o3 - mini reasoning model and is “ optimized to do advanced data analysis , ” Microsoft said . psychoanalyst progresses through problem iteratively , accept steps to refine its “ thinking ” and provide a detailed response to enquiry . Analyst can also start the programming linguistic process Python to take on complex information queries , Microsoft added , and expose its “ piece of work ” for review .
What makes Microsoft ’s deep research tools somewhat more singular than the challenger is their access to oeuvre data as well as the worldwide web . For example , Researcher can pink third - party data connectors to draw on datum from AI “ agents , ” tool , and apps like Confluence , ServiceNow , and Salesforce .
allot , the real challenge is ensuring tools such as Researcher and Analyst do n’t hallucinate or otherwise make poppycock up . model , including o3 - mini , and mystifying research are by no means perfect ; from fourth dimension to fourth dimension , they mis - cite work , draw incorrect conclusions , and pull from dubious public web site to inform their reasoning .
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Microsoft is launching a new Frontier program through which Microsoft 365 Copilot client can gain access to Researcher and Analyst . Those enter in Frontier , which going forward will gather experimental co-pilot features first , will get Researcher and Analyst starting in April .
