Microsoft announces updates to AI-powered 365 Copilot with Pages and autonomous agents [Video]

Microsoft Corp. today announced updates and improvements to its generative artificial intelligence-powered Copilot family for its Microsoft 365 apps and the addition of new features such as new autonomous agents that can automate and execute business processes on behalf of users.

Front and center, Microsoft announced Copilot Pages, a new AI feature designed for team collaboration that can bring data in from the web or corporate knowledge bases and then allow it to be shared between users.

It starts with a standard Copilot prompt, where a user asks a question about any subject and the large language model brings in information from Business Chat, also known as BizChat, a centralized data repository that can house web data, work data and business data. It then builds a response that can be put into a Page, which acts like a sharable canvas.

“Pages takes ephemeral AI-generated content and makes it durable, so you can …