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, under CEO Satya Nadella, is adding new AI capabilities including AI agents that can complete tasks and oversee business processes autonomously.

Microsoft customers will from November start to build autonomous AI agents as part of efforts to leverage the growing tech sector amid rising competition. This comes as Microsoft is also looking at fending off competition from peers Salesforce,