Musk plugged Grok into Excel: Select a piece of data to ask the reasons for the rise and fall, and the chart is directly inserted into the table. Musk’s xAI has installed its own large model Grok directly into the heart of Microsoft Office

Musk inserted Grok into Excel: Select a piece of data to ask the reasons for the rise and fall, and the chart is directly inserted into the table. xAI, owned by Musk, directly installed its own large model Grok into the heart of Microsoft Office. According to reports from multiple financial media on July 21, xAI has launched a free Microsoft365 plug-in called Grok For Excel for Microsoft Excel. It is currently available on the Microsoft Marketplace and is compatible with Word and PowerPoint. This means that Grok no longer only lives in the chat box, but has become a readily available data analyst in the office suite. The usage logic of this plug-in is extremely close to real office scenarios: users select a data area in Excel and can directly ask Grok questions about changes in the data, the reasons behind them, and the highlights. Grok's answer will clearly quote the corresponding data cells, rather than giving conclusions out of thin air. It can also understand formula syntax and complete common editing operations such as average calculation, sorting, and filling. The generated charts can be inserted into the worksheet with one click. In other words, the work that used to require writing functions, dragging formulas, and manually drawing graphs can now be done by speaking to the data. More importantly, Grok doesn't just focus on the small piece of selected data in the table. With the help of connectors, it can extract contextual information from email, SharePoint or Google Drive, and piece the scattered data into the current analysis. This capability makes Q&A in Excel no longer an island, but can combine email exchanges, team documents and external files to make a more complete judgment. When Grok is embedded into the three-piece suite of Word, PowerPoint and Excel as a free plug-in, the boundary between office software and conversational AI has been rubbed away again. via AI News (author: AI Base)