financial modeling

Microsoft Copilot Finished Last in an Excel AI Showdown — Here’s Why It Matters Artificial intelligence is becoming a serious productivity layer for spreadsheet work, but not every AI tool is equally prepared for the complexity of real Excel workflows. A recent comparison of four AI systems —...

Endex arrives in Excel as an assertive, analyst‑style co‑pilot — able to pull tables out of multi‑page PDFs, clean and standardize messy workbooks, and assemble a full three‑statement DCF model from a single prompt — and it does so at a moment when Microsoft has already begun baking agentic AI...

Microsoft Excel’s 40th birthday put a spotlight on something almost everyone in finance already suspected: the spreadsheet isn’t just surviving — it’s continuing to shape how organizations model, report, and decide. A fresh industry survey and a wave of product updates have turned that...

Anthropic’s Claude has moved into the place every analyst, accountant, and data wrangler lives most of their working day: Microsoft Excel — and the implications for financial modeling, auditability, and competitive dynamics with Microsoft’s own Copilot are substantial and immediate. Background...

Fundamental Research Labs’ new product, Shortcut, has forced a familiar office question into the open: if spreadsheets can be written, audited, and modeled by agentic AI from a single natural-language prompt, does anybody still need to open Excel every day? Background Fundamental Research Labs...

Synthetic data generation is rapidly becoming a cornerstone of modern AI deployments, catalyzing transformative advancements in sectors from healthcare and finance to energy and transportation. Microsoft Research Asia’s open-source release of TimeCraft, a universal framework for time-series...

Quantum Leap: Reshaping Software Development for the Quantum Age Quantum computing no longer belongs in the realm of science fiction. With breakthroughs like Microsoft’s Majorana 1 chip and accessible quantum cloud platforms such as IBM’s Q Experience and Microsoft Azure Quantum, a...