Microsoft Takes On Alphabet With This AI Advance. It’s Copilot vs Gemini. - Barron's
1. Microsoft launching first reasoning agents, Researcher and Analyst, for M365 Copilot. 2. AI agents enhance multistep task completion using secure access to work data. 3. Access begins in April, part of early feature rollout for Copilot users. 4. Fierce AI competition, with reasoning models requiring 100 times more computing power. 5. Google released competing AI model, Gemini 2.5, outperforming Microsoft models.