The US software company Microsoft has expanded its Chatbot Copilot by two AI agents to help employees with research and analyzes. The AI agent called Researcher should help employees procure information, while the name analyst should be able to process large amounts of data. Both AI agents receive access to internal data such as documents, emails or chat messages in Microsoft 365. You also search the Internet independently.
AI agent combines internal data with web research
For Researcher, Microsoft uses the deep research model from Openaai, but complements its AI agents by his own research functions. According to company, Resears can create their own analyzes from internal data and online research, for example for market launch strategies or quarterly reports. In addition, resears can access data from third -party providers via interfaces. This means that external sources, including Salesforce, ServiceNow or Confluence, can be integrated into the chat bot. The AI agent can also use the data of other agents such as Sales Chat.
The basis for analyst, on the other hand, forms the Reasoning model O3-Mini from Openaai. Using a chain of thought, the AI agent is to solve problems and, based on raw data, get to findings within minutes. In addition, analyst can handle python code, users can According to Microsoft View the code carried out in real time and check the work of the AI agent. Analyst can compose and visualize raw data from different tables, for example for sales and demand forecasts.
At the same time, Microsoft announced its Copilot Studio platform to expand Reasoning skills and agent flows. Companies can create their own AI agents in a low-code environment. From April 2025, researcher and analyst can be used as part of the new Frontier program, in which users receive preliminary access to functions that are still in development. Finally, the Chatbot Copilot received a new surface and additional functions.
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