Microsoft makes it easier for users to create AI agents in Copilot Studio

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. 

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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. 

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