Microsoft will allow businesses to start making their own autonomous artificial intelligence agents starting next month, taking the fight back to Salesforce, which introduced its own configurable agentic AI tools in September.

AI agents are reigniting the competition between Microsoft and Salesforce. Microsoft announced 10 new AI agents for its Dynamics 365 line of business applications — tools that can complete tasks autonomously in areas including sales,

Virtual workers  Software King of the World, Microsoft is going to allow its punters to build autonomous AI agents and create virtual workers. The move is part of Vole’s broader effort to expand its presence in the rapidly evolving AI landscape.