Customers with Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses will begin to see two first-of-their-kind reasoning agents for work – Researcher and Analyst through our new program, Frontier.
What is the Frontier program?
Beginning to rollout in phases in May, Frontier offers our customers the ability to get hands on with the latest model innovation and provide feedback before experiences are made generally available. Researcher and Analyst are the first Frontier experiences with more experiences to come to Frontier over time. These experiences are being made available under the existing preview terms of your enterprise product terms. Frontier experiences allow for personal data processing, adhering to the Data Processing Agreement (DPA).
To get started
Our first Frontier experiences - Researcher and Analyst – will be available in the App (agent) store. Both agents will be labeled with ending in “(Frontier)”. All Microsoft 365 Copilot licensed users will be able to discover the agents by opening their Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat experience on the web, clicking “All Agents” and navigating to “Built by Microsoft,” the “agents” or “productivity” categories of the store. There are no limits on usage of Researcher or Analyst for end-users, subject to change. As these features are still in development, they will only be made available in English.
Agent availability follows your existing store settings for Microsoft 365 apps, respecting your organization's policies and control settings. To check your settings, visit the Microsoft 365 admin center. If access to Copilot agents is set to "No Users," change it to "All Users" or "Specific Users" to enable access to Researcher and Analyst. Management of these agents uses the same controls as other apps in the Microsoft 365 admin center. By default, agents are available for users to install. Users may experience throttling during heavy usage periods.
For more details on managing Copilot agents, go to Manage agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot in Integrated Apps - Microsoft 365 admin | Microsoft Learn.
Join us for our upcoming Microsoft 365 Copilot Tech Community AMA event!
Save the Date and join us Thursday, May 1st, at 8:30 AM Pacific for an Ask Microsoft Anything (AMA) This session will explore early access experiences with Copilot reasoning agents—including Researcher and Analyst—and provide space to ask questions about how these agents support complex research and data analysis tasks at work.
For more information and registration: https://aka.ms/M365CopilotAMA/Frontier
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