Volkswagen Group has equipped more than 330,000 employees across the company with Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft said in a release on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2026 . The tools now reach engineering, production, procurement and sales, and more than 26,000 agents were active across the Group over the past month, according to the release.

The rollout came in stages. Microsoft described the deployment as the latest step in the Group’s “deliberate, phased approach to AI adoption,” and the release lays out the order in which it happened:

Broad access to AI chat through Copilot Chat came first, and Volkswagen saw upwards of 300,000 monthly active users on it.

Employees now use Copilot with Work IQ for what Microsoft called “more advanced productivity scenarios,” built into business processes from engineering to production, procurement and sales.

More than 26,000 agents were active across the Group in the past month alone.

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