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At its Ignite conference next month, Microsoft will let more of its users spin up autonomous AI "agents" within Copilot Studio, its AI orchestration platform, the company says.

The public preview of this agent-building capability advances Microsoft's efforts to enable organizations to offload smaller, repetitive tasks to AI agents, which can be thought of as more nimble, programmable versions of the Copilot chatbot. In a blog post Monday, Microsoft 365 chief marketing officer Jared Spataro described agents as "the new apps for an AI-powered world."

"Every organization will have a constellation of agents," Spataro predicted, "ranging from simple prompt-and-response to fully autonomous. They will work on behalf of an individual, team or function to execute and orchestrate businesses process."

Launched last year, Copilot Studio connects the Copilot AI to an organization's various data sources, from the Microsoft Graph to Dynamics 365. With November's public preview, users will be able to build their own agents within Copilot Studio and train them on those same data sources.