Box Brings AI Agent to Microsoft 365 Copilot

At its Content + AI Summit today, Box announced an AI agent platform for business along with a Box AI Agent for Microsoft 365 Copilot.

“The future of enterprise AI will be defined by intelligent agents that can work together across systems, each bringing unique context and capabilities to the table,” Box co-founder and CEO Aaron Levies says. “Just as APIs once connected software, AI agents will change the way we work, and that transformation will be most profound when applied to enterprise content. With this next evolution of Box AI, we’re putting the intelligence of millions of files directly into the hands of users and into the AI tools they already use. These Agents will integrate seamlessly across platforms, helping teams make faster, more informed decisions while preserving the security and compliance enterprises depend on.”

“Box has been a trusted Microsoft partner for years, and we’re pleased to take our collaboration to the next level with this new Box AI Agent for Microsoft 365 Copilot,” Microsoft general manager Dan Stevenson added. “By bringing together Box’s enterprise-grade Intelligent Content Management platform and Microsoft’s AI-powered productivity platform, we’re making it seamless for joint customers to use the power of Copilot with all their content stored in Box, unlocking insights and taking actions across their enterprise tools.”

The Box AI platform with Box AI Agents will arrive in the coming months, and it’s not just Microsoft 365 Copilot: Box plans to add AI Agents for Google Agentspace, IBM watsonx Orchestrate, Salesforce Agentforce, Slack AI, ServiceNow AI Agent Fabric, and Zoom AI Companion as well. And developers can build custom agents that leverage content stored in Box using a Box MCP Server or the Google ADK and OpenAI Agent SDKs.

The Box AI Agents utilize the latest AI models from Amazon, Anthropic, Google, IBM, Meta, OpenAI, and xAI to best match the demands of a particular task. And customers will be able to customize these agents in Box Ai Studio.

The Box AI Agent for Microsoft 365 is precisely what it sounds like, a way for companies that store data in Box to also access information in Teams, Word, PowerPoint, and Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat from a single interface. In other words, the agent can search, analyze, and act on Box-hosted content from Microsoft tools that businesses also use. More specifically, the firm says that customers of both Box and Microsoft 365/Microsoft 365 Copilot will be able to:

• Analyze dense sets of documents to extract key insights and information for better decision-making
• Leverage existing templates to draft new content from a simple prompt for simplified content creation
• Search and query across multiple documents to identify patterns, insights, and action items for quicker search and trend analysis
• Ask targeted questions to clearly define milestones for improved project tracking and stakeholder communication

Pricing is TBD and will be revealed closer to general availability, Box says.