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Michael Nuñez@AI News | VentureBeat
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Microsoft has significantly expanded its Copilot Studio platform at Build 2025, introducing multi-agent systems designed to revolutionize enterprise workflows. This expansion allows AI agents built with Copilot Studio, Microsoft 365, Azure AI Agents Service, and Azure Fabric to collaborate on complex business tasks, delegating tasks to each other to complete processes. According to Ray Smith, VP of AI Agents at Microsoft, this approach addresses the challenges of creating reliable processes within a single agent, improving maintainability, simplifying solution building, and enhancing overall reliability. An example scenario involves a Copilot Studio agent pulling sales data from a CRM, handing it to a Microsoft 365 agent to draft a proposal in Word, and then triggering another agent to schedule follow-ups in Outlook.
Microsoft is also committed to building an open agentic AI ecosystem, demonstrated by its support for Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP). GitHub and Microsoft have joined the steering committee for MCP, an open-source standard designed to enable AI tools to directly access data systems. This initiative aims to simplify data connections for AI models, allowing them to fetch information from apps and data stores more easily and safely. The MCP allows any AI client to communicate with any MCP server through a standard interface, eliminating the need for custom connectors for each data source. Microsoft plans to add first-party support across Azure and Windows to assist developers in exposing app features as MCP servers.
Furthering its commitment to open AI, Microsoft is making available a Model Router and a Model Leaderboard to optimize model selection for specific tasks. The Model Router enables real-time selection of the best model for a given query, while the Model Leaderboard ranks AI models based on their performance across various categories. Additionally, Microsoft is offering pre-built agents, custom agent building blocks, and a software development kit (SDK) based on MCP. The company is also extending the observability capabilities of its Azure AI Foundry to agents, offering comprehensive tools and platforms to foster an open and collaborative AI ecosystem, referred to as the Agentic Web.
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Microsoft is also committed to building an open agentic AI ecosystem, demonstrated by its support for Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP). GitHub and Microsoft have joined the steering committee for MCP, an open-source standard designed to enable AI tools to directly access data systems. This initiative aims to simplify data connections for AI models, allowing them to fetch information from apps and data stores more easily and safely. The MCP allows any AI client to communicate with any MCP server through a standard interface, eliminating the need for custom connectors for each data source. Microsoft plans to add first-party support across Azure and Windows to assist developers in exposing app features as MCP servers.
Furthering its commitment to open AI, Microsoft is making available a Model Router and a Model Leaderboard to optimize model selection for specific tasks. The Model Router enables real-time selection of the best model for a given query, while the Model Leaderboard ranks AI models based on their performance across various categories. Additionally, Microsoft is offering pre-built agents, custom agent building blocks, and a software development kit (SDK) based on MCP. The company is also extending the observability capabilities of its Azure AI Foundry to agents, offering comprehensive tools and platforms to foster an open and collaborative AI ecosystem, referred to as the Agentic Web.
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- techstrong.ai: Microsoft Commits to Building Open Agentic AI Ecosystem
- AI News | VentureBeat: Microsoft just taught its AI agents to talk to each other—and it could transform how we work
Classification:
- HashTags: #MicrosoftBuild #AgenticAI #CopilotStudio
- Company: Microsoft
- Target: Enterprises
- Product: Copilot Studio
- Feature: Multi-agent systems
- Type: AI
- Severity: Informative