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Microsoft’s new AI system ‘SpreadsheetLLM’ unlocks insights from spreadsheets, boosting enterprise productivity

The Research Paper Addresses the Challenges of Applying AI to the Widely Used but Complex Spreadsheet Format

Microsoft researchers have unveiled “SpreadsheetLLM,” a new AI model designed to understand and work with spreadsheets, in a significant development for the world of enterprise AI. The research paper, titled “SpreadsheetLLM: Encoding Spreadsheets for Large Language Models,” was recently published on arXiv and addresses the challenges of applying AI to the widely used but complex spreadsheet format.

SpreadsheetLLM combines the power of large language models (LLMs) with the structured data found in spreadsheets. “SpreadsheetLLM is an approach for encoding spreadsheet contents into a format that can be used with large language models (LLMs) and allows these models to reason over spreadsheet contents,” the researchers note, highlighting the critical need for improved AI tools in this area.