Microsoft added a bevy of new features for Copilot to enhance memory, ability to take action and conduct research and also updated its Azure AI Foundry with tools to build AI agent systems.
The news, which lands as Microsoft celebrates its 50th birthday, lands as large language model (LLM) advancements are almost happening daily. Here's the rundown of Microsoft's Copilot updates. Also see: Google Gemini vs. OpenAI, DeepSeek vs. Qwen: What we're learning from model wars
- Copilot now has memory and personalization to retain details from user interactions so it can add suggestions, reminders and personalized answers.
- Microsoft said Copilot can take action on your behalf via Actions and navigate most sites on the web to book tickets and make reservations.
- Copilot Vision is available on mobile and Windows.
- Copilot Deep Research has been added to handle research tasks.
- Microsoft added Copilot Search to bring Bing directly to Copilot as well as Pages, Podcasts and Shopping.
For Azure AI Foundry, which now has more than 60,000 customers, Microsoft outlined the following updates to position it as an agent factory:
- AI Red Teaming Agent, which is in public preview, will test AI models to uncover safety vulnerabilities.
- Agent evaluations, also in public preview, will provide risk and quality assessments for AI agent systems.
- Semantic Kernel agent framework, which is available, simplifies the code developers need to build and coordinate multiple agents in a system.
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