Microsoft Build 2026 moved to San Francisco and introduced Microsoft IQ, Work IQ, the MAI model family and Majorana 2 as the developer platform for the agentic era.
What it announced
Microsoft IQ · MicrosoftContext layer grounding agents in enterprise and world knowledgeGA
Work IQ APIs · MicrosoftProgrammatic access to workplace intelligence, GA June 16Coming
Microsoft Scout · MicrosoftPersonal always-on work agent, available to Frontier customersAnnounced
MAI-Thinking-1 · MicrosoftMicrosoft AI's first reasoning model, private preview on FoundryPreview
MAI-Image-2.5 · MicrosoftMicrosoft's first text-to-image and image-to-image modelsAnnounced
Agent 365 for local agents · MicrosoftExtends Entra, Defender, Purview to govern local agentsAnnounced
Microsoft Discovery · MicrosoftAgentic AI platform for the full science workflowGA