{"id":92637,"date":"2025-03-26T03:12:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T03:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/26\/microsoft-adds-ai-powered-deep-research-tools-to-copilot\/"},"modified":"2025-03-26T03:12:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T03:12:34","slug":"microsoft-adds-ai-powered-deep-research-tools-to-copilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/26\/microsoft-adds-ai-powered-deep-research-tools-to-copilot\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft adds AI-powered deep research tools to Copilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Microsoft is introducing a \u201cdeep research\u201d AI-powered tool in Microsoft 365 Copilot, its AI chatbot app.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s been a raft of deep research agents launched recently across chatbots, including OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT, Google\u2019s Gemini, and xAI\u2019s Grok. Powering them are so-called reasoning AI models, which posses the ability to think through problems and fact-check themselves \u2014 skills arguably important for conducting in-depth research on a subject.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Microsoft\u2019s flavors are called Researcher and Analyst.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Researcher combines OpenAI\u2019s deep research model \u2014 which powers the company\u2019s own <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/02\/02\/openai-unveils-a-new-chatgpt-agent-for-deep-research\/\">ChatGPT deep research<\/a> tool \u2014 with \u201cadvanced orchestration\u201d and \u201cdeep search capabilities.\u201d Microsoft claims that Researcher can perform analyses including developing a go-to-market strategy and creating a quarterly report for a client.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As for Analyst, it\u2019s built on OpenAI\u2019s o3-mini reasoning model and is \u201coptimized to do advanced data analysis,\u201d Microsoft said. Analyst progresses through problems iteratively, taking steps to refine its \u201cthinking\u201d and provide a detailed answer to queries. Analyst can also run the programming language Python to tackle complex data queries, Microsoft added, and expose its \u201cwork\u201d for inspection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What makes Microsoft\u2019s deep research tools slightly more unique than the competition is their access to work data as well as the worldwide web. For example, Researcher can tap third-party data connectors to draw on data from AI \u201cagents,\u201d tools, and apps like Confluence, ServiceNow, and Salesforce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Granted, the real challenge is ensuring tools such as Researcher and Analyst don\u2019t hallucinate or otherwise make stuff up. Models including o3-mini and deep research are by no means perfect; from time to time, they mis-cite work, draw incorrect conclusions, and pull from dubious public websites to inform their reasoning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Microsoft is launching a new Frontier program through which Microsoft 365 Copilot customers can gain access to Researcher and Analyst. Those enrolled in Frontier, which going forward will gain experimental Copilot features first, will get Researcher and Analyst starting in April.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/03\/25\/microsoft-adds-ai-powered-deep-research-tools-to-copilot\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is introducing a \u201cdeep research\u201d AI-powered tool in Microsoft 365 Copilot, its AI chatbot app. There\u2019s been a raft of deep research agents launched<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}