Microsoft introduces an “deep search” tool on Microsoft 365 Copilot, its AI Chatbot application.
There have been a series of deep research agents launched recently on chatbots, including the Openai Chatppt, the Gemini of Google and the Xai Grok. Food them are supposedly AI reasoning reasons, which have the ability to think about problems and verify the facts themselves-the skills undoubtedly important to conduct in-depth research on a subject.
Microsoft flavors are called researchers and analysts.
The researcher combines the in -depth research model of Openai – which fuels the proper research tool in the company’s chatgpt – with “advanced orchestration” and “deep research capacities”. Microsoft says that researchers can carry out analyzes, including the development of a marketing strategy and the creation of a quarterly report for a customer.
As for the analyst, it is built on the O3-Mini of Openai reasoning model and is “optimized to carry out an advanced data analysis,” said Microsoft. The analyst progresses in the problems in an iterative manner, taking measures to refine his “reflection” and provide a detailed response to requests. The analyst can also execute the Python programming language to combat complex data requests, Microsoft has added and expose his “work” for the inspection.
What makes Microsoft’s deep research tools slightly more unique than competition is their access to work data as well as the global web. For example, the researcher can use third -party data connectors to take advantage of the data of AI “agents”, tools and applications such as Confluence, ServiceNow and Salesforce.
Admittedly, the real challenge is to guarantee that tools such as the researcher and analysts do not hallucinate or invent things. Models such as O3-Mini and deep research are in no way perfect; From time to time, they hurt to work, draw incorrect conclusions and draw questionable public websites to clarify their reasoning.
Microsoft is launching a new Frontier program through which Copilot Microsoft 365 customers can access the researcher and the analyst. People enrolled in Frontier, who in the future will first obtain experimental co -pilot features, will obtain a researcher and an analyst from April.
