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Microsoft’s new AI agents support 1,800 models (and counting)
- Microsoft has claimed users can now build their own custom autonomous agents or deploy out-of-the-box bots.
- Microsoft 365 Copilot now provides access to the 1,800-plus models in the Azure AI catalog.
- IDC reports that over the next two years, more and more companies will build custom, tailored AI tools.
- New integrations with Azure AI Foundry will support custom search indices and models, allowing users to access a variety of models and fine-tune them.
- Already-built models can be useful across enterprises, as Microsoft is releasing several ready-made agents that can handle simple, repetitive tasks or more complex multi-step processes.
- A new Azure AI Foundry SDK offers a simplified coding experience and toolchain for developers to customize, test, deploy and manage agents.
- McKinsey & Company is working with Microsoft on an agent that will speed up client onboarding. Meanwhile, Thomson Reuters has built an agent to help make the legal due diligence process more efficient.
- Agents are increasingly authoring processes and workflows and working across groups of people and in multi-agent systems.
- Agents serve as a layer on top of large language models, generating recommendations for humans or, if programmed, act on their own.
- Conversation data that was once siloed is now being used by agentic AI to provide context in real time.
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