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.

Microsoft is taking the fight back to Salesforce, as it will allow businesses to develop their own autonomous artificial intelligence agents by next month. Salesforce has already introduced configurable agentic AI tools in September and Microsoft may be competing with it head on with the introduction of its AI agents.

Microsoft Corp. is launching a set of artificial intelligence tools designed to send emails, manage records and take other actions on behalf of business workers, expanding an AI push that intensifies competition with rivals like Salesforce Inc.