The tool, Copilot in Excel with Python, is currently in public preview. The welcome addition forms part of a much broader strategy that Microsoft is currently rolling out, which it calls ‘Wave 2’.

Microsoft has launched two new "reasoning agents" for Copilot that were designed to analyze vast amounts of work data, including emails, meetings, chats and documents. The first tool called ...

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Jared Spataro, Corporate VP of AI at Work for Microsoft, commented: “It’s like adding a skilled data analyst to the team.” The tool, Copilot in Excel with Python, is currently in public preview.

Microsoft is the latest company to equip its AI chatbot, Copilot, with deep research tools, allowing it to use reasoning and analysis to provide complex answers and complete tasks.

Microsoft is introducing a “deep research” AI-powered tool in Microsoft 365 Copilot, its AI chatbot app. There’s been a raft of deep research agents launched recently across chatbots ...

Copilot + Python. The tilt towards businesses with Wave 2 continues with the enhancements made to Copilot in Microsoft Excel. As well as adding new features to its Excel skill set (e.g. more ...

Addressing this, Microsoft has open-sourced MarkItDown, a powerful utility designed to convert file content into Markdown. MarkItDown is an open-source Python utility that simplifies converting ...

Debug-Gym, introduced by Microsoft, is a Python-based platform designed to test how AI agents utilize interactive debugging tools like pdb for realistic code-repair tasks.