Microsoft Plots New Copilot Features Inspired by OpenClaw

As Microsoft faces growing competition for business customers from Anthropic, it is developing new features that would make its AI assistant Copilot function more like OpenClaw, the open-source AI agent that has taken the AI industry by storm in recent months.

A newly created team under Microsoft corporate vice president Omar Shahine is “exploring the potential of technologies like OpenClaw in an enterprise context,” including a team of always-on agents that would be able to work 24/7 on a users’ behalf within Microsoft 365 applications, Shahine said on Sunday in a statement to The Information.