Announcements
41 announcements
| Announcement | Status | |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft IQContext layer grounding agents in enterprise and world knowledgeBuild 2026 | GA | Build 2026 |
| Work IQ APIsProgrammatic access to workplace intelligence, GA June 16Build 2026 | Coming | Build 2026 |
| Microsoft ScoutPersonal always-on work agent, available to Frontier customersBuild 2026 | Announced | Build 2026 |
| MAI-Thinking-1Microsoft AI's first reasoning model, private preview on FoundryBuild 2026 | Preview | Build 2026 |
| MAI-Image-2.5Microsoft's first text-to-image and image-to-image modelsBuild 2026 | Announced | Build 2026 |
| Agent 365 for local agentsExtends Entra, Defender, Purview to govern local agentsBuild 2026 | Announced | Build 2026 |
| Microsoft DiscoveryAgentic AI platform for the full science workflowBuild 2026 | GA | Build 2026 |
| Majorana 2Next-gen quantum chip, 1000x more reliable qubit lifetimeBuild 2026 | Announced | Build 2026 |
| Microsoft Agent 365Infrastructure to manage and govern AI agents at scaleIgnite 2025 | GA | Ignite 2025 |
| Sales Development AgentAutonomous prospecting and outreach agent, Frontier programIgnite 2025 | Preview | Ignite 2025 |
| Teams Admin AgentAutomates Teams admin tasks like monitoring and provisioningIgnite 2025 | Preview | Ignite 2025 |
| SharePoint Admin AgentMonitors inactive sites and manages permissionsIgnite 2025 | Preview | Ignite 2025 |
| Word, Excel, PowerPoint AgentsAgent Mode content generation across Microsoft 365 appsIgnite 2025 | Preview | Ignite 2025 |
| Copilot voiceNatural speech interaction with Copilot for commercial usersIgnite 2025 | GA | Ignite 2025 |
| New Power Apps maker workspaceUnified AI-powered canvas for app buildingIgnite 2025 | Preview | Ignite 2025 |
| Dynamics 365 ERP MCP serversConnects AI agents to enterprise ERP systemsIgnite 2025 | Preview | Ignite 2025 |
| GitHub Copilot coding agentAsynchronous agentic coding partner built into GitHubBuild 2025 | Announced | Build 2025 |
| Windows AI FoundryUnified platform for the AI developer lifecycle on WindowsBuild 2025 | Announced | Build 2025 |
| Azure AI Foundry Agent ServiceOrchestrates multi-agent workflows; Semantic Kernel + AutoGen in one SDKBuild 2025 | GA | Build 2025 |
| Microsoft Entra Agent IDAssigns unique identities to agents to prevent agent sprawlBuild 2025 | Preview | Build 2025 |
| Model Context Protocol supportFirst-party MCP support across GitHub, Foundry, Copilot Studio, Windows 11Build 2025 | Announced | Build 2025 |
| NLWebOpen project giving websites a conversational, MCP-native interfaceBuild 2025 | Announced | Build 2025 |
| Microsoft DiscoveryAgentic AI platform for accelerating scientific R&DBuild 2025 | Announced | Build 2025 |
| Microsoft 365 Copilot TuningLow-code agent creation using a company's own dataBuild 2025 | Announced | Build 2025 |
| Zero Day QuestHacking event with $4 million in rewardsIgnite 2024 | Announced | Ignite 2024 |
| Copilot ActionsAutomate tasks from Copilot in Microsoft 365Ignite 2024 | Announced | Ignite 2024 |
| Copilot AnalyticsMeasure Copilot impact and ROIIgnite 2024 | Announced | Ignite 2024 |
| Windows 365 LinkCloud PC device, April 2025Ignite 2024 | Coming | Ignite 2024 |
| Azure Integrated HSMFirst in-house security chipIgnite 2024 | Announced | Ignite 2024 |
| Azure Boost DPUFirst in-house DPUIgnite 2024 | Announced | Ignite 2024 |
| Azure HBv5HPC VMs co-engineered with AMDIgnite 2024 | Announced | Ignite 2024 |
| SQL Server in Microsoft FabricOperational database natively in FabricIgnite 2024 | Announced | Ignite 2024 |
| Azure AI Foundry and Agent ServiceUnified AI app platform and agent serviceIgnite 2024 | Announced | Ignite 2024 |
| Windows Copilot RuntimeOn-device models and APIs for Windows AI appsBuild 2024 | Announced | Build 2024 |
| PyTorch and WebNN on DirectMLDeveloper previewBuild 2024 | Preview | Build 2024 |
| GPT-4o on Azure OpenAI ServiceOpenAI's multimodal model on AzureBuild 2024 | GA | Build 2024 |
| Phi-3 Vision and new Phi-3 modelsSmall language modelsBuild 2024 | Announced | Build 2024 |
| Azure AI StudioEnd-to-end environment to build and fine-tune AI appsBuild 2024 | GA | Build 2024 |
| Real-Time Intelligence in FabricStreaming and event analytics in FabricBuild 2024 | Preview | Build 2024 |
| GitHub Copilot ExtensionsThird-party tools inside GitHub CopilotBuild 2024 | Preview | Build 2024 |
| Team CopilotCopilot as a team assistant, preview later in 2024Build 2024 | Coming | Build 2024 |
Keynotes with Microsoft
| Date | Keynote | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 2026 |  Microsoft Build 2026Satya Nadella · 2h 23m · 8 announcedAgents, AI coding | Agents, AI coding | Build 2026 relocated from Seattle to San Francisco for the first time, running June 2-5, 2026. | 8 |
| Apr 22, 2026 |  Google Cloud Next 2026Thomas Kurian, Sundar Pichai · 1h 39m · 8 announcedAgents, AI infrastructure, Security | Agents, AI infrastructure, Security | Thomas Kurian outlined a unified stack of chips, models, agents and security for enterprise AI | 8 |
| Mar 16, 2026 |  NVIDIA GTC 2026Jensen Huang · 2h 19m · 6 announcedAI infrastructure, Robotics | AI infrastructure, Robotics | The keynote opened by framing the token as the basic unit of modern AI, at NVIDIA GTC 2026, SAP Center, San Jose. | 6 |
| Nov 18, 2025 | Microsoft Ignite 2025Judson Althoff, Asha Sharma · 2h 28m · 8 announcedAgents, Security | Agents, Security | Judson Althoff, CEO of Microsoft Commercial Business, opened the keynote, not Satya Nadella. | 8 |
| Nov 11, 2025 |  KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2025Jonathan Bryce, Chris Aniszczyk · 42m · 3 announcedOpen source, AI infrastructure | Open source, AI infrastructure | CNCF opened KubeCon NA 2025 in Atlanta by marking 10 years since the foundation's creation | 3 |
| Oct 28, 2025 |  Adobe MAX 2025Shantanu Narayen, David Wadhwani · 3h 6m · 5 announcedModels, Agents, Enterprise apps | Models, Agents, Enterprise apps | Adobe apps let creators work with partner models like Google Gemini, Veo and Imagen, OpenAI, Flux, Runway and Microsoft MAI | 5 |
| Oct 28, 2025 |  GitHub Universe 2025Kyle Daigle · 1h 0m · 5 announcedAI coding, Agents, Governance | AI coding, Agents, Governance | Mission Control is a single view to assign, steer and track agent sessions across projects | 5 |
| Jun 3, 2025 |  Snowflake Summit 2025Christian Kleinerman · 1h 41m · 8 announcedAgents, Data platforms, Pricing | Agents, Data platforms, Pricing | Adaptive Compute announced: Snowflake picks cluster sizes and scaling automatically instead of users sizing warehouses | 8 |
| Jun 2, 2025 | Snowflake Summit 2025Sridhar Ramaswamy, Sam Altman, Sarah Guo · 58m · 3 announcedAgents, Data platforms, Models | Agents, Data platforms, Models | Snowflake highlighted deeper Apache Iceberg support, used by companies like Booking.com, via Catalog Linked Databases | 3 |
| May 22, 2025 |  Anthropic events 2025Mike Krieger, Dario Amodei · 1h 40m · 6 announcedModels, AI coding, Agents | Models, AI coding, Agents | Mike Krieger opened Code with Claude, Anthropic's first developer conference, in front of a live audience | 6 |
| May 19, 2025 | Microsoft Build 2025Satya Nadella · 1h 59m · 8 announcedAgents, AI coding, Open source | Agents, AI coding, Open source | Satya Nadella framed the event around building an open agentic web at scale. | 8 |
| May 19, 2025 |  Computex 2025Jensen Huang · 1h 43m · 9 announcedAI infrastructure, Robotics | AI infrastructure, Robotics | Huang told a crowd of more than 4,000 at Taipei Music Center that AI data centers are, in fact, AI factories. | 9 |
| Nov 19, 2024 | Microsoft Ignite 2024Satya Nadella · 1h 16m · 9 announcedAgents, AI infrastructure, Security | Agents, AI infrastructure, Security | Zero Day Quest, a hacking event with $4 million in rewards focused on cloud and AI security, was announced | 9 |
| Nov 12, 2024 | Snowflake BUILD 2024Christian Kleinerman · 59m · 8 announcedData platforms, Agents, Open source | Data platforms, Agents, Open source | Streaming and read-write support for Apache Iceberg tables became generally available | 8 |
| Oct 29, 2024 | GitHub Universe 2024Thomas Dohmke · 50m · 5 announcedAI coding, Models, Agents | AI coding, Models, Agents | OpenAI o1-preview and o1-mini became available to Copilot users in Copilot Chat | 5 |
| Oct 10, 2024 |  AMD Advancing AI 2024Lisa Su · 2h 12m · 2 announcedAI infrastructure | AI infrastructure | MI300, launched less than a year before, was deployed by Microsoft and Meta for major workloads | 2 |
| Sep 10, 2024 |  Oracle AI World 2024Larry Ellison · 1h 11m · 2 announcedCloud, Security, Data platforms | Cloud, Security, Data platforms | Ellison declared "the beginning of the multicloud era," with Oracle Database available inside other clouds | 2 |
| Jun 4, 2024 | Snowflake Summit 2024Benoit Dageville, Christian Kleinerman · 1h 56m · 10 announcedData platforms, Governance, Agents | Data platforms, Governance, Agents | Dynamic tables, the declarative incremental pipelines used by more than 3,000 customers, became generally available | 10 |
| May 21, 2024 | Microsoft Build 2024Satya Nadella · 53m · 8 announcedPlatforms, AI coding, Models | Platforms, AI coding, Models | The Windows Copilot Runtime makes Windows a platform for AI apps, with 40 plus on-device models available out of the box | 8 |
| Mar 18, 2024 | NVIDIA GTC 2024Jensen Huang · 2h 3m · 4 announcedAI infrastructure, Robotics | AI infrastructure, Robotics | Blackwell was unveiled as the successor to Hopper, in a form factor that slides into Hopper systems | 4 |
| Nov 6, 2023 |  OpenAI DevDay 2023Sam Altman · 46m · 7 announcedModels, Agents, Pricing | Models, Agents, Pricing | GPT-4 Turbo supports up to 128,000 tokens of context, 16 times GPT-4's 8K, with knowledge updated to April 2023 | 7 |
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