Keynotesby GlyphMicrosoft Build
Microsoft · 7 keynotes · 2026, 2025, 2024, 2023 · mostly AI coding and Agents · 24 announcements
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GitHub Copilot, VS Code, Foundry & Community SessionsA 6h 40m keynote video in San Francisco from the official Microsoft Developer channel.
Satya Nadella Opening KeynoteBuild 2026 relocated from Seattle to San Francisco for the first time, running June 2-5, 2026.Satya Nadella8 announced2h 23m
Opening Keynote, Live Coding & DemosA 8h 52m keynote video in San Francisco from the official Microsoft Developer channel.
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Satya Nadella Opening KeynoteSatya Nadella framed the event around building an open agentic web at scale.Satya Nadella8 announced1h 59m
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Opening keynoteA 2h 24m keynote by Satya Nadella.
Satya Nadella keynoteThe Windows Copilot Runtime makes Windows a platform for AI apps, with 40 plus on-device models available out of the boxSatya Nadella8 announced53m
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Satya Nadella keynoteA 31-minute keynote by Satya Nadella.
Announcements
Microsoft IQContext layer grounding agents in enterprise and world knowledge
Work IQ APIsProgrammatic access to workplace intelligence, GA June 16
Microsoft ScoutPersonal always-on work agent, available to Frontier customers
MAI-Thinking-1Microsoft AI's first reasoning model, private preview on Foundry
MAI-Image-2.5Microsoft's first text-to-image and image-to-image models
Agent 365 for local agentsExtends Entra, Defender, Purview to govern local agents
Microsoft DiscoveryAgentic AI platform for the full science workflow
Majorana 2Next-gen quantum chip, 1000x more reliable qubit lifetime
GitHub Copilot coding agentAsynchronous agentic coding partner built into GitHub
Windows AI FoundryUnified platform for the AI developer lifecycle on Windows
Azure AI Foundry Agent ServiceOrchestrates multi-agent workflows; Semantic Kernel + AutoGen in one SDK
Microsoft Entra Agent IDAssigns unique identities to agents to prevent agent sprawl
Model Context Protocol supportFirst-party MCP support across GitHub, Foundry, Copilot Studio, Windows 11
NLWebOpen project giving websites a conversational, MCP-native interface
Microsoft DiscoveryAgentic AI platform for accelerating scientific R&D
Microsoft 365 Copilot TuningLow-code agent creation using a company's own data
Windows Copilot RuntimeOn-device models and APIs for Windows AI apps
PyTorch and WebNN on DirectMLDeveloper preview
GPT-4o on Azure OpenAI ServiceOpenAI's multimodal model on Azure
Phi-3 Vision and new Phi-3 modelsSmall language models
Azure AI StudioEnd-to-end environment to build and fine-tune AI apps
Real-Time Intelligence in FabricStreaming and event analytics in Fabric
GitHub Copilot ExtensionsThird-party tools inside GitHub Copilot
Team CopilotCopilot as a team assistant, preview later in 2024