Microsoft’s new AI agents support 1,800 models (and counting)

AI agents are the talk of the enterprise right now. But, business leaders want to hear about tangible results and relevant use cases — as opposed to futuristic, not-quite-there-yet scenarios — and demand tools that are easy to deploy and use and, further, that support their preferred model(s). 

Microsoft claims to have all these concerns covered with new no-code and low-code capabilities in Microsoft 365 Copilot. Today at Microsoft Ignite, the tech giant announced that users can now build their own custom autonomous agents or deploy out-of-the-box, purpose-built agents. And, they can do this via a bring-your-own setup that provides them access to the 1,800-plus models in the Azure AI catalog. (See our separate story today about how Microsoft has quietly assembled the largest AI agent ecosystem — and no one else is close).

“Companies have done a lot of AI exploration and really want to be able to ...