Microsoft has many Copilot offerings that cater to businesses’ specific everyday needs. To give organizations more control over their AI assistants, Microsoft’s Copilot Studio allows users to build and customize Copilots — and the tech giant is bringing major upgrades to the experience. On Tuesday, at Microsoft Ignite, the company’s annual developer conference, Microsoft made several upgrades to its Copilot Studio, allowing users to build capable agents more easily. One of the biggest standouts is the introduction of autonomous agents in public preview. Users can now create autonomous agents directly in Copilot. As the name implies, autonomous agents can perform tasks triggered by a series of actions from different tools, systems, and databases without human intervention, such as manual prompting, to carry out the work independently. For example, Microsoft uses the example of an email arriving, and the autonomous agent understanding how to respond and using generative AI to trigger a chain of actions that can carry out the corresponding business process, such as looking at the sender’s details, checking inventory, responding accordingly, and closing the ticket. “When people came out with the iPhone, we realized we could put apps on phones, and there was an explosion of people trying to build apps — I see the same analogy now that, with these new agent-building capabilities, people are exploring the new apps and solutions that they want to build quickly,” said Ray Smith, CVP of AI Agents at Microsoft to ZDNET.

Full report : Microsoft adds new capabilities to its Copilot Studio which will help businesses build and deploy AI agents.