Microsoft Office gets an AI agent mode

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00:00Microsoft Office gets an AI Agent Mode.

00:03Microsoft has a new buzzword for the corporate dictionary, Vibe Working.

00:08If Vibe Coding promised to turn your half-baked app ideas into actual software, Vibe Working

00:13wants to rescue the rest of us from the slow agony of spreadsheets and Word docs.

00:18The concept, unveiled this week, is basically AI-powered grunt work for Office, only with

00:23a friendlier name and a lot more magic under the hood.

00:26At the heart of it is Agent Mode, a new co-pilot feature rolling out to Word, Excel, and soon

00:30PowerPoint.

00:32In Word, you can dump a pile of numbers and notes and have the AI spit back a neatly formatted

00:37report that actually looks like something you'd present to your boss.

00:41No pivot tables, no late-night Googling for how to write a business summary, no tiers.

00:46It's basically Microsoft's earlier deep research and researcher agents, tools that compile and

00:50summarize data, now baked directly into Office.

00:54Just days ago, Anthropic showed off a Claude Chatbot trick that can create or edit Excel,

00:59PowerPoint, Word, and even PDF files without you opening them.

01:03Claude will soon co-exist inside Office alongside OpenAI's GPT models, meaning Microsoft's productivity

01:10suite is about to be an AI battleground.

01:13For now, Office Agent is debuting for Microsoft 365 co-pilot customers and personal or family

01:19subscribers on the web, with desktop updates coming soon.

01:23Microsoft promises it can churn out tasteful, well-structured PowerPoint decks and Word docs,

01:28which is corporate-speak for, you'll finally have slides that don't look like clipart explosions.

01:34The bottom line?

01:35Vibe Working is Microsoft's pitch for a future where spreadsheets practically write themselves,

01:40and PowerPoints assemble-on-command, leaving you more time to, well, Vibe.