project

Autopilot

Microsoft's cloud-hosted personal AI agent within Copilot, formerly called Scout, which runs in a customer's tenant with its own identity and compute instance.

Current clusters

build1 publisher

Microsoft gives each Copilot Autopilot agent its own Entra user account

Microsoft is giving each Copilot Autopilot agent a licensed Entra user account with its own email, calendar and OneDrive storage. Teams with homegrown agent plumbing on Microsoft 365 can hand identity over first and should test recovery before dropping their own.

Publishers:thenewstack.io

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption18
Hype gap+30
Incentives65
Confidence55

product1 publisher

Microsoft's three-tab Copilot app puts metered code and agents beside everyday chat

Microsoft's new Copilot app bills its Cowork, Code and Autopilot features by usage and places all three in the app employees open for chat. Admins now have to budget for what staff build and leave running, using Microsoft's FinOps for AI to control spend.

Publishers:theverge.com

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption8
Hype gap+35
Incentives70
Confidence55