Microsoft 365 Copilot: Your window into the world of agents

The 2025 Work Trend Index reveals the emergence of the Frontier Firm—built around intelligence on tap, human-agent teams, and a new role for everyone: agent boss.

Today we’re announcing the Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2 spring release, with an updated Microsoft 365 Copilot app designed to power the next era of human-agent collaboration. Copilot is now your window into the world of agents, with new capabilities that lay the foundation for this next phase—driven by more advanced models, adaptive memory, and reasoning agents that work alongside you. Updates include:

• AI-powered Search to help you find information faster at work.
• A new Create experience built for business that unlocks design skills for everyone.
• Copilot Notebooks to turn your content and data into instant insights and action.
• And a new Agent Store to easily find and access agents right in the flow of work.

New capabilities in Microsoft 365 Copilot

We’re excited to share that Researcher and Analyst—two first-of-their-kind reasoning agents for work powered by OpenAI’s deep reasoning models—are rolling out to customers in the new Agent Store starting today via the Frontier program.¹ Researcher helps you tackle complex, multi-step research—delivering insights with greater quality and accuracy than previously possible. And Analyst thinks like a skilled data scientist, so you can go from raw data to insights in minutes.

With our new Agent Store, you can easily find, pin, and use a range of agents. The Store offers prebuilt agents like Researcher and Analyst, as well as agents from partners like Jira, Monday.com, Miro, and your company’s custom agents—providing a single place for on-demand expertise.

Copilot Search is a new AI-powered enterprise search that helps you find what you need instantly with rich, context-aware answers from across your organization’s apps and data. It connects to first- and third-party apps—from ServiceNow to Google Drive, Confluence, Jira, and more—so you get fast, relevant results at work no matter where your data lives.

Memory and personalization make Copilot even more personalized to you and your work. Now, Copilot learns how you work and understands your needs and preferences through your chats, job profile, custom instructions, and more. Memory and personalization are private just to you, and if you’re ever working with sensitive information, you can control what Copilot remembers.

Create brings the power of OpenAI’s GPT‑4o AI image generation to work, unlocking design and content creation skills for everyone. Easily modify or customize brand images or generate AI images aligned to your company’s approved brand guidelines, and create everything from marketing copy and social assets, to newsletter banners and surveys, to videos from PowerPoint presentations, and more.

Copilot Notebooks allows you to pull together a wide range of content such as your notes, documents, websites, meeting recordings, and more. It then grounds Copilot on your notebook to give you the most relevant actions and insights—all while constantly scanning your source material to update in real time as your content updates. Notebooks can even create a podcast-style audio overview of your content with two hosts that walk you through the key points—a fun, flexible way to stay informed.

As the work chart replaces the org chart, and becomes more project- and outcome-based, leaders will need to understand who has which skills and domain expertise across the organization. The Skills agent, powered by the People Skills data layer, lets leaders easily create dynamic skill-based teams to tackle any project, and lets employees find and connect with people who have the skills they need.

Soon you’ll be able to press one key to get Copilot at your fingertips. Just hit the Copilot key and Win + C shortcut on Windows 11 PCs to access Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat right in the flow of work.

Microsoft Copilot Studio is the platform for AI makers

Copilot Studio lets you easily create and securely customize enterprise-grade agents for your unique business needs. And the Copilot Control System gives IT administrators the tools they need to manage, govern, and measure Copilot and agents across the entire organization.

Today, we’re adding new capabilities to the Copilot Control System:

• The new Apps and Agents in Data Security Posture Management for AI with Purview gives IT administrators a single dashboard to view and govern AI apps and agents with full control over data classification, protection policies, and who has access to what data.
• Manage the deployment of agents with Agent Management in the Microsoft 365 admin center—including the ability to enable, disable, or block agents for specific users or groups—to help ensure the right agents are being used by the right people to meet the organization’s business needs. Generally available.
• With Copilot Analytics, you can now measure the usage and business impact of your agents. The new Copilot Studio Agents Report, accessible in Microsoft Viva Insights, gives IT a comprehensive view of how agent-assisted actions are contributing to productivity gains and ROI. 

Researcher and Analyst are rolling out to customers starting today via the Frontier program.¹

Wave 2 spring release innovations will begin rolling out to customers in late May unless otherwise noted.

Read the Work Trend Index

With AI and agents that can reason and solve problems in remarkable ways, companies can now scale capacity like never before. Read the new 2025 Work Trend Index—out today—to get all the latest research and insights on the emergence of the Frontier Firm.

¹ The Frontier program gives customers with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license early access to new Copilot innovations while they’re still in development.