AI Pro Tip Introducing Researcher and Analyst in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Microsoft recently announced two first-of-their-kind reasoning agents for work: Researcher and Analyst. They analyze vast amounts of information with secure, compliant access to your work data-your emails, meetings, files, chats, and more-and the web to deliver highly-skilled expertise on demand.

Researcher helps you tackle complex, multi-step research at work-delivering insights with greater quality and accuracy than previously possible. It combines OpenAI's deep research model with Microsoft 365 Copilot's advanced orchestration and deep search capabilities. You can use Researcher to build a detailed go-to-market strategy based on the context of all your work data and broader competitive data from the web; identify whitespace opportunities for a new product based on emerging trends and internal data; or create a comprehensive quarterly report for a client review detailing work to date along with the latest market analysis.

Analyst thinks like a skilled data scientist, so you can go from raw data to insights in minutes. Built on OpenAI's o3-mini reasoning model and optimized to do advanced data analysis at work, Analyst uses chain-of-thought reasoning to progress through problems iteratively, taking as many steps as necessary to refine its reasoning and provide a high-quality answer that mirrors human analytical thinking. It can run Python to tackle your most complex data queries-and you can view the code it's running in real time and check its work.

Read more about these exciting new tools here: Introducing Researcher and Analyst in Microsoft 365 Copilot | Microsoft 365 Blog