"We think of these agents as really the apps of the AI era," Goode said in an interview with VentureBeat. "Every line of business system that exists today is going to get reimagined as an agent that sits on tOP of a copilot."
Microsoft's move is seen as a direct response to Salesforce's Agentforce platform, which was unveiled earlier this year. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has been aggressively promoting Agentforce, while criticizing Microsoft's Copilot. Benioff recently referred to Microsoft Copilot as "more like Clippy 2.0," a nod to Microsoft's much-maligned Office assistant from the 1990s.