'When intelligence and trust move together, AI stops being an experiment and starts becoming how work gets done': Microsoft and OpenAI are making AI research tools smarter to help answer even your trickiest questions

Date:
Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:00:00 +0000

Description:
Microsoft is using a second model to check the first model's accuracy, completeness and quality in research-based tasks.

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now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful Join the club Get full access to premium articles, exclusive features and a growing list of member rewards. Explore An account already exists for this email address, please log in. Subscribe to our newsletter Multi-model agents will check each other before sharing research with you to ensure maximum quality Researcher mode with Critique enabled scores highly on the DRACO benchmark Copilot Cowork is here to Frontier program customers Microsoft has announced plans to upgrade its M365 Copilot Researcher agent with a clear focus on using multiple models across AI workflows to combine the power of various systems.

Under this shift away from single-model systems, multiple AI agents will collaborate and hand off different parts of the task to each other. To begin with, the Researcher agent will use GPT models to generate the initial response, with Claude stepping in to review it for accuracy, completeness and quality. Article continues below You may like 'The era of Copilot execution
is here': Microsoft's Copilot Cowork is here with Anthropic AI to conquer all your biggest work tasks Microsoft 365 confirms new premium tier focused on AI and productivity 5 ways Claude's Cowork could be the biggest AI innovation of 2026 M365 Copilot's Researcher agent will pass responses through other agents Microsoft AI at Work Chief Marketing Officer Jared Spataro explained The update follows the success of Anthropic's Claude Cowork, which has since been integrated into M365 Copilot. The aptly-named Copilot Cowork, has now been made available in the Frontier program ahead of a broader rollout, allows humans to delegate work to AI.

Spataro explained how Copilot Cowork moves AI's usefulness from single, basic prompts to end-to-end task execution, ideal for long-running and multi-step workflows.

As for Researcher mode with the new Claude-based Critique function, it has already outperformed single-model systems in early testing, with the second ensuring best-quality output. It scores 13.8% higher on the DRACO benchmark (Deep Research Accuracy, Completeness and Objectivity), deemed the industry standard.

Achieving 57.4% thanks to the multi-model setup, it's more than twice as reliable as Deep Research with OpenAI's o4-mini model. It's also better than o3-based Deep Research, Gemini Deep Research, Claude Opus 4.6 and
Perplexity's Deep Research when using Opus 4.5 and 4.6. Microsoft didn't compare it to newer flagship models like GPT-5.4, acting singularly. Are you
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"When intelligence and trust move together, AI stops being an experiment and starts becoming how work gets done," Spataro wrote, speaking about
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