"If Wood's theory holds - that real AI prowess shows up in unglamorous advances - PwC's latest launch is certainly notable. After all, what could be less sexy than spreadsheets? The Big Four firm announced this week that it has developed a "frontier AI agent" capable of reasoning over vast, enterprise-grade spreadsheets - something that conventional AI systems struggle with because of their complexity, size, and interdependencies."
"The agent can understand and navigate spreadsheets, mimicking "how experienced practitioners work: scanning, searching, jumping across tabs, integrating charts and receipts, and reasoning," PwC said in a press release. Why spreadsheets matter Wood, who joined PwC in 2024 from a role as vice president of AI at Amazon Web Services, said that when he started, he'd noticed the wraparound, ultra-wide monitors filled with spreadsheets:"
PwC created a frontier AI agent designed to reason over large, enterprise-grade spreadsheets that contain millions of cells, charts, images, receipts, and dozens of interlinked workbooks. The agent can understand and navigate spreadsheets, emulating experienced practitioners by scanning, searching, jumping across tabs, integrating charts and receipts, and performing reasoning. Enterprise spreadsheets function as complex financial engines that underpin critical business decisions and pose challenges in scale, complexity, and interdependencies. Conventional AI systems have difficulty managing these files, prompting development of specialized agents that target real-world operational workloads rather than surface-level applications.
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