In a blog post last week, the company sharpened its vision for its own use of agentic AI, saying it wants to be a “frontier AI” company. You may recognize the phrase because Meta uses it to describe super-intelligence. At Microsoft, frontier AI has a decidedly human inclination.
In its latest Inside Track article, Microsoft describes how it is reorganizing itself around agentic AI and laying the groundwork to operate as an “AI-first Frontier Firm.” The company outlines a phased shift from simple AI assistance toward human-led, agent-operated workflows in which digital workers carry out business processes with increasing autonomy. Microsoft Digital, the company’s internal IT organization, is positioned as the testing ground for…
