How Excel got agentic
Mukul Singh, a Microsoft Director of Science, transitioned from research to product development to implement agentic AI capabilities in Excel. His work, which began two years ago, has since expanded to include PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook. This initiative aims to enhance productivity by treating Excel as a low-resource programming language.
- ▪Mukul Singh moved from Microsoft Research to the Office Product Group to develop agentic AI for Excel.
- ▪The project started with the concept of Excel as a low-resource programming language.
- ▪Singh's research focused on improving AI models for obscure programming languages.
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Conversation Share in r x f How Excel got agentic: An interview with Microsoft Director of Science Mukul Singh How Excel got agentic: An interview with Microsoft Director of Science Mukul Singh We sat down with Microsoft Director of Science Mukul Singh to learn how his team leveraged two years of research to bring agentic capabilities to Excel and beyond. By Command Line team Command Line editorial team When Mukul Singh made the jump from pure research into product, it was a leap of faith. But he had an idea that he wanted to bring to life: delivering agentic AI capabilities in Excel. While this was well before buzzwords like “the agentic AI era” had cultural cachet, the research was already headed in that direction.
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