Microsoft is leaning into agentic AI with a planned revamp of its own AI assistant, Copilot, according to a new report from The Information. The always-on Copilot, when launched, will be able to complete tasks for you, not unlike the viral OpenClaw platform.
OpenClaw, the open-source platform for creating AI agents, catapulted agentic AI into the spotlight ever since it was released, and major AI players are jumping in headfirst. Nvidia recently released its own reference stack, NemoClaw, which provides some much-needed safety guardrails that OpenClaw doesn’t currently have, such as the ability to track all actions the AI agent takes. This was shortly followed by Anthropic’s announcement that subscribers with certain plans can have Claude perform tasks on their behalf.
OpenClaw’s popularity seems to have piqued Microsoft’s interest, too. Omar Shahine, Microsoft’s corporate vice president, told The Information that the tech giant is looking into OpenClaw-like technologies. According to
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