Nec Brings AI Automation Agent to Microsoft Marketplace

Nec Corporation has started selling its cotomi Agent on Microsoft Marketplace in Japan from August. The AI automation agent can automate web-based business tasks and integrate with Microsoft Azure and other Microsoft products.

The launch marks Nec's first sale of a solution or application using its in-house AI core technology through Microsoft Marketplace, according to the company. It plans to use the marketplace as a new distribution channel alongside its traditional systems integration model and expand its lineup of proprietary solutions and AI applications.

Nec cotomi Agent uses Nec's proprietary cotomi Act technology, which extracts and uses tacit knowledge held by individuals and organizations and automatically executes tasks on the web. It can operate business systems and web browsers to perform tasks automatically, reducing the need for experts to design complex rules or revise code when system screens change.

The product is priced at 15,000 yen per user per month, excluding tax, with separate dedicated tenant usage fees required. Nec said cotomi Act achieved an 80.4% task success rate on the international WebArena benchmark, exceeding the human task success rate of 78.2% for the first time globally.