AI at work: Learn, build, and grow with Microsoft Copilot and agents
Explore new Copilot modes, learn the basics of AI FinOps, and understand what’s next for agents. Microsoft is reimagining Copilot, bringing familiar tools together with new capabilities that help people and organizations build, customize, and scale AI across work. For a full overview of what’s new, read the Official Microsoft Blog. To help you make the most of what’s new, start with the new AI at Work playlist in AI Skills Navigator. This playlist brings together practical learning to help you choose and use the Copilot mode that best fits your role and your work. AI Skills Navigator brings Microsoft learning into one place, helping individuals and teams find curated learning by role or goal, create custom learning plans, and track team progress. One Copilot, new ways of working with AI The AI at Work playlist starts by helping you understand how the Copilot app’s three new capabilities support connected ways of working with AI: Home is your new starting point, where Chat and Cowork come together. Chat answers questions, explores ideas, and completes everyday tasks. Cowork collaborates on complex, multi-step work. Code extends solution-building to every knowledge worker. Autopilot is a persistent, proactive, and personal agent that keeps working even when you’re not. The playlist helps you recognize when and how to use each mode to move from an idea or need to an outcome. Learn by doing with the AI at Work playlist The new AI at Work playlist in AI Skills Navigator shows you how to use the new Copilot in three practical areas. Navigate the new Copilot modes. Learn how the Copilot app supports different kinds of work, from answering questions and collaborating on deliverables to building solutions and delegating ongoing tasks. Balance usage, cost, and value. Explore AI financial operations (AI FinOps) concepts for business professionals, administrators, and builders, including responsible consumption and managing usage and cost. For a deeper look, read the FinOps for AI blog. Understand how agents are evolving. Build familiarity with Copilot Studio and agent harnesses. Explore how agents can support increasingly connected, multi-step work. For the full news, read the Copilot Studio blog. Put one skill into practice How do you make the most of the new Copilot in your role? Choose a task you know well. Define the outcome, give Copilot useful context, choose whether to collaborate, build, or delegate, and review the result with judgment. As Copilot evolves, that cycle can help your skills evolve with it. Explore the AI at Work playlist in AI Skills Navigator and choose one new skill to put into practice today.
