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Microsoft (MSFT+0.33%) announced new features for Copilot, its “personalized” artificial intelligence assistant.
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The company announced that users can now build their own autonomous agents in Copilot Studio that can “understand the nature of a user’s work and act on their behalf.” Microsoft customers will be able to create their own autonomous agents in public preview in November, the company announced during its AI Tour in London.
AI agents can range from simple prompt-and-response capabilities to fully autonomous. In other words, AI agents can “act on behalf of individuals, teams, or functions” in business processes, Microsoft said. Users will be able to interact with autonomous agents through Copilot.
The company also announced 10 new autonomous agents for its enterprise platform Dynamics 365. The new agents are designed for “sales, service, finance and supply chain” employees, but the company plans to develop more agents, the company said. The 10 autonomous agents will be available in public preview later this year or early 2025, according to Microsoft.
Microsoft said its Copilot Studio autonomous agents will use OpenAI’s new “inference” model, o1 (in preview), and other new AI models to “enhance our AI and inference capabilities.”
“These models provide more accurate predictions, enhanced natural language processing, and improved decision support,” Microsoft said.
In July, Nvidia (NVDA+0.77%) CEO Jensen Huang said the next wave of AI will be in the enterprise, and that everyone in the company “will have an AI assistant.”
“We want every organization to be able to create their own AI,” Huang said during a fireside chat at SIGGRAPH, a computer graphics conference. “So everyone will have collaborative AI that will enhance and empower them and help them do their jobs better.”
