Microsoft announced two new AI agents for sales that double as a competitive response to Salesforce in an area where both companies are placing big bets.

Microsoft has unveiled a host of new AI agents aimed at supporting salespeople in their quest to chase leads and close deals like never before. The company has announced two new agents and a new accelerator program all directed at helping sales as the rise in AI agents continues.

While the solutions have a lot in common, Salesforce is getting closer to a "real" AI agent and offers more ways to customize. The post Salesforce & Microsoft square off with new AI sales agents appeared first on MarTech.

Microsoft has announced two new AI sales agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot to help sales teams manage leads and close deals efficiently.

Learn more about the two new AI tools from Microsoft, dubbed Sales Agent and Sales Chat, that are poised to help the company rival Salesforce.

The agents are part of Microsoft 365 Copilot and can be used to automatically generate and communicate with sales leads.

Redmond says you could ask one for a 'list of deals ... at risk of falling through' Microsoft today announced two software agents that automate certain business functions for Dynamics 365, its enterprise resource planning and customer relationship suite,