Build 2024 keynote
Satya Nadella · May 21, 2024 · 53m · Seattle, Washington
Summary
Nadella framed 2024 around three platforms: Copilot+ PCs with the Windows Copilot Runtime, the Copilot stack in Azure, and Copilot extensibility. News spanned GPT-4o on Azure, new Phi-3 small models, Azure AI Studio GA, Real-Time Intelligence in Fabric, GitHub Copilot Extensions and Team Copilot.
Key themes: Platforms, AI coding, Models · AI-written summary from the published transcript
- 1The Windows Copilot Runtime makes Windows a platform for AI apps, with 40 plus on-device models available out of the box8:35
- 2Windows will natively support PyTorch and the new WebNN framework through DirectML, in developer preview10:08
- 3GPT-4o, trained on Azure, was available on Azure OpenAI Service the same day OpenAI announced it22:45
- 4New models joined the Phi-3 family of small language models, including Phi-3 Vision26:35
- 5Azure AI Studio became generally available30:59
- 6Real-Time Intelligence in Microsoft Fabric was introduced for streaming and event data34:05
- 7GitHub Copilot Extensions let any developer bring third-party tools and context into Copilot39:03
Announced
2 available the same day| Announcement | Status |
|---|---|
| Windows Copilot RuntimeOn-device models and APIs for Windows AI apps | Announced |
| PyTorch and WebNN on DirectMLDeveloper preview | Preview |
| GPT-4o on Azure OpenAI ServiceOpenAI's multimodal model on Azure | GA |
| Phi-3 Vision and new Phi-3 modelsSmall language models | Announced |
| Azure AI StudioEnd-to-end environment to build and fine-tune AI apps | GA |
| Real-Time Intelligence in FabricStreaming and event analytics in Fabric | Preview |
| GitHub Copilot ExtensionsThird-party tools inside GitHub Copilot | Preview |
| Team CopilotCopilot as a team assistant, preview later in 2024 | Coming |
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About this keynote
Keynote page: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OviTSFqucI
- Satya NadellaChairman and CEO, Microsoft
Companies named: GitHub, Hugging Face, Nvidia, OpenAI, Microsoft
Last changed 2026-09-24.
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