Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is opening a company conference in Chicago with remarks that could set the stage for where it’s taking its artificial intelligence business.

Microsoft plans to roll out a slew of new AI features, capabilities, and agents for its 365 Copilot ecosystem starting in early 2025.

Copilot Actions will let workers set up simple workflow automations to let M365 Copilot take on repetitive tasks.

Autonomous agents are the next frontier of AI assistants. Microsoft is adding new capabilities to help you build and deploy AI agents.

Microsoft also announced enhancements to evaluation capabilities for generative AI models in Azure AI Foundry, a new unified AI development studio for tools and services announced today, to allow developers to understand what their AI-driven applications are running on to make sure AI models remain accurate and trustworthy.

At its Ignite conference this morning, Microsoft put the spotlight on new AI experiences coming soon to Copilot+ PCs.