Microsoft just upgraded Copilot Researcher with two multi-model tools: Critique and Council. Critique pairs different frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic to split drafting and fact-checking, boosting benchmark scores by 13.8%, while Council lets you compare divergent answers side by side.
Microsoft just announced the Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2 spring release, introducing an Agent Store alongside two reasoning agents, Researcher and Analyst. Powered by OpenAI deep reasoning models, the agents tackle complex multi-step research and data analysis, while updates also add cross-app search and audio-enabled notebooks. It signals Microsoft's aggressive push into human-agent collaboration.
Microsoft just introduced Researcher and Analyst, two new reasoning agents inside Microsoft 365 Copilot built for complex workplace tasks. Researcher pairs OpenAI's deep research model with company data to run multi-step market reviews, while Analyst taps o3-mini to execute Python code directly against messy spreadsheets. They roll out to Microsoft 365 Copilot license holders this April under a new Frontier early-access preview.
