PwC engineers built an AI agent to tackle the corporate world's least sexy task: spreadsheets

PwC, like many consulting firms, is investing heavily in engineering talent.

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• PwC's engineers have created a new AI agent to tackle enterprise-grade spreadsheets.
• Spreadsheets are unsexy, but crucial to corporate operations, PwC exec Matt Wood told Business Insider.
• Traditional AIs "just kind of shrug and give up" when they meet a big spreadsheet, Wood said.

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