New Researcher and Analyst tools are here for Microsoft 365 Copilot New deep reasoning tool in Copilot Studio will use models like OpenAI’s o1 It’ll take the time to analyze and recognize patterns to make better decisions Microsoft has announced a series of updates to its Copilot generative AI tool to take advantage of the latest innovations in AI,

Analyst is based on the o3-mini reasoning model from OpenAI, and Microsoft claims that with chain-of-thought reasoning, it’s capable of turning raw data into spreadsheets, running Python code that you can view while it’s running, and operate on the level of a skilled data scientist, pulling together reports like this one (pdf).