Microsoft announces new features during Build to deploy AI agents efficiently and securely. Copilot Tuning allows you to align AI agents with company-specific data.
AI agents take center stage during the opening day of Microsoft Build 2025. Microsoft expands its AI offering with features such as Copilot Tuning, multi-agent orchestration, and security. With this expansion, Microsoft aims to make AI accessible to every company. In the past quarter, over one million custom agents were created in Microsoft 365: an increase of 130 percent compared to the previous quarter.
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Aligning with Company Data
With Copilot Tuning, organizations can train AI agents based on their own workflows and data, without requiring programming knowledge. Through Copilot Studio, companies can easily create agents that perform specific tasks, such as drafting legal documents or automating customer communications.
Additionally, the multi-agent orchestration feature allows multiple agents to collaborate on more complex tasks. Agents can exchange information, divide work based on expertise, and collaborate within departments such as HR, IT, and marketing. Microsoft will support the Agent2Agent protocol devised by Google, allowing AI agents to communicate across different platforms.
This capability is now available in public preview. Copilot Tuning will be available from June through an Early Adopter Program for customers with at least 5,000 Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses.
Identity Card
Microsoft also gives companies more control over the deployment of AI agents. Through Microsoft Entra Agent ID, agents receive their own ‘identity card’. This allows them to be managed like other users within an organization. Microsoft is also expanding information security with Purview Information Protection for agents using Dataverse.
Developers gain access to new tools, such as the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit and an improved SDK. These allow them to build, test, and deploy their own AI agents via Teams and the web, among others. Developers can use the AI agents through Azure AI Foundry. With the new Agent Feed in Power Apps, users can then monitor the work of agent teams, detect errors, and intervene where necessary.