Microsoft (MSFT) sees a future in which the world uses AI agents to do everything from coding to navigating its Windows operating system. The company laid out this vision during its annual Build conference in Seattle on Monday, explaining that it expects to see what it calls an “open agentic web” in which AI agents can make decisions and perform tasks for individual users or entire organizations.

One of the biggest trends in tech, AI agents are semi- or fully autonomous pieces of AI software that can perform certain tasks for users. Those can include everything from moving data between different apps to booking concert tickets. Some agents can even communicate with each other, creating a web of agents that can complete more complex tasks.

“What we're seeing is AI development accelerating, and people going from kind of proof of concepts to working solutions that are really driving business impact,” Scott Guthrie, Microsoft executive vice president of cloud and AI, told Yahoo Finance.

“We expect momentum to continue and accelerate, in particular, as what we call the agentic web emerges. And our key goal at Microsoft is how do we make it easier for organizations and for developers and startups to really keep pace with all the new technologies,” Guthrie added.

According to Microsoft, some 230,000 organizations are already using its Copilot Studio to develop their own custom AI agents. And it expects businesses to roll out 1.3 billion agents by 2028.