IBL News | New York
Microsoft will start rolling out in April two AI agents to increase productivity at work this week: Researcher and Analyst.
According to the company, these agents analyze vast amounts of information and have secure, compliant access to users’ work data—emails, meetings, files, chats, and more—and the web.
Researcher helps tackle complex, multi-step research by combining OpenAI’s deep research model with Microsoft 365 Copilot’s advanced orchestration and deep search capabilities. It can be used to build a go-to-market strategy based on internal, emerging, and other web data to identify opportunities for new products and provide insights and reports. It integrates data from external sources like Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Confluence.
Analyst has been trained to think like “a skilled data scientist, so you can go from raw data to insights in minutes,” according to Microsoft.
Optimized to do advanced data analysis at work, this agent is built on OpenAI’s o3-mini reasoning model, moving through problems iteratively, taking steps to provide answer that mirrors human analytical thinking.
It can run Python to tackle your most complex data queries, and users can view the code running in real time and check if it works. For example, this AI Analyst can turn raw data scattered across multiple spreadsheets into a demand forecast for a new product, a visualization of customer purchasing patterns, or a revenue projection.
Microsoft also announced deep reasoning and agent flows in Microsoft Copilot Studio, a platform for creating, managing, and deploying agents.
Microsoft also presented a Sales Agent to turn contacts into qualified leads. The agent draws on CRM, company data like price sheets, the web, and Microsoft 365 data such as emails and meetings to personalize every response.
In addition, Sales Chat helps accelerate the sales cycle, giving reps actionable takeaways from CRM data, pitch decks, meetings, emails, and the web.
