Ready to Put Your Work on 'Autopilot'? Microsoft Readies Its AI Agent for Release
As personal AI agents pick up steam, Microsoft is getting closer to launching its own in "Autopilot" for business users. Microsoft likens it to a "digital teammate" that can work continuously without always requiring a user prompt, unlike AI chatbots. "Give it a name, a role, and a goal, and it goes to work—watching channels, following up on threads, running recurring work, and picking a project back up days later, without waiting for a prompt," Microsoft says.Microsoft released its AI agent project to a select group of enterprise customers in June.
- ▪As personal AI agents pick up steam, Microsoft is getting closer to launching its own in "Autopilot" for business users.
- ▪Microsoft likens it to a "digital teammate" that can work continuously without always requiring a user prompt, unlike AI chatbots.
- ▪"Give it a name, a role, and a goal, and it goes to work—watching channels, following up on threads, running recurring work, and picking a project back up days later, without waiting for a prompt," Microsoft says.Microsoft released its AI a
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As personal AI agents pick up steam, Microsoft is getting closer to launching its own in "Autopilot" for business users. As part of its revamp of the Copilot app, Microsoft also touched on its effort to develop an AI agent that can work for enterprise customers around the clock, even while they're asleep.Microsoft first tipped Autopilots at its Build conference in June, describing them as "always-on agents that work autonomously, with their own identity, and act on your behalf." At the time, Scout was introduced as Microsoft's "first Autopilot agent," but the company is now dropping that name and sticking with Autopilot.
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