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In the race to infuse artificial intelligence (AI) into every corner of the digital world, Microsoft has set its sights on conquering the final frontier of office productivity: the humble spreadsheet. The tech giant’s latest creation, SpreadsheetLLM, aims to change how businesses crunch numbers and make decisions. By harnessing the power of large language models (LLMs), this AI tool, which is still in the testing stages, could transform Excel from a static grid into a dynamic, question-answering powerhouse — potentially reshaping workflows for millions of users worldwide. “The infinite cell-like nature and references to cells in spreadsheets make it challenging for LLMs, which have been trained using standard linear tokenization techniques, to understand the spreadsheet data model,” Rogers Jeffrey Leo John, co-founder and CTO of DataChat, a no-code, generative AI platform, told PYMNTS