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Microsoft adds AI-powered deep research tools to Copilot


Microsoft is introducing a "deep research" AI-powered tool in Microsoft 365 Copilot to compete with similar tools from OpenAI and Google.

There’s been a raft of deep research agents launched recently across chatbots, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and xAI’s Grok. Powering them are so-called reasoning AI models, which posses the ability to think through problems and fact-check themselves — skills arguably important for conducting in-depth research on a subject. Analyst can also run the programming language Python to tackle complex data queries, Microsoft added, and expose its “work” for inspection.

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