Nicole Herskowitz, corporate vice president of modern work and business applications at Microsoft, took to the stage at Microsoft Ignite to showcase new features in Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio to help attendees better understand their use cases.

Microsoft will let customers connect Copilot Studio agents to third-party apps, and tools for building autonomous agents are now available in a public preview.

Microsoft 365 Copilot is your AI assistant for work, and we have seen the momentum grow as more organizations are moving to Copilot and deploying it to great success. All up, nearly 70% of the Fortune 500 now use Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told customers at a conference in Chicago on Tuesday that the company is teaching a new set of artificial intelligence tools how to “act on our behalf across our work and life.

Copilot Actions will let workers set up simple workflow automations to let M365 Copilot take on repetitive tasks.

Debuted at Microsoft’s annual information technology professional conference Ignite 2024 , Copilot Studio autonomous agents are now in public preview, enabling developers to build AI agents to perform advanced business logic tasks based on conversational workflows.

At its Ignite conference this morning, Microsoft put the spotlight on new AI experiences coming soon to Copilot+ PCs.