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Microsoft Build 2026: Satya Nadella Opening Keynote

Satya Nadella · Jun 2, 2026 · 2h 23m · San Francisco

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Summary

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.

Key themes: Agents, AI coding · AI-written summary from the published transcript

Where each highlight is said2:22:55
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  1. 42:58

    Work IQ APIs became generally available June 16, giving agents programmatic access to workplace context.

  2. 57:41

    Microsoft IQ, a new context layer grounding agents in enterprise and world knowledge, is GA.

  3. 1:25:53

    Agent 365 for local agents extends Entra, Defender and Purview to govern agents anywhere they run.

  4. 1:44:11

    Microsoft Scout, a personal always-on agent built on OpenClaw and Work IQ, launched for Frontier customers.

  5. 1:51:50

    MAI-Thinking-1, Microsoft AI's first in-house reasoning model, is in private preview on Foundry.

  6. 2:09:59

    Microsoft Discovery, the agentic science platform, is now generally available.

  7. 2:18:23

    Majorana 2, Microsoft's quantum chip, hit a 20-second average qubit lifetime with a path to a million qubits.

  8. 8

    Build 2026 relocated from Seattle to San Francisco for the first time, running June 2-5, 2026. Source

Announced

2 available the same day
GAMicrosoft IQContext layer grounding agents in enterprise and world knowledge
ComingWork IQ APIsProgrammatic access to workplace intelligence, GA June 16
AnnouncedMicrosoft ScoutPersonal always-on work agent, available to Frontier customers
PreviewMAI-Thinking-1Microsoft AI's first reasoning model, private preview on Foundry
AnnouncedMAI-Image-2.5Microsoft's first text-to-image and image-to-image models
AnnouncedAgent 365 for local agentsExtends Entra, Defender, Purview to govern local agents
GAMicrosoft DiscoveryAgentic AI platform for the full science workflow
AnnouncedMajorana 2Next-gen quantum chip, 1000x more reliable qubit lifetime

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Keynote page: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFMm454fxNA

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Photos: Brian Smale and Microsoft, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Companies named: Microsoft, Nvidia

Last changed 2026-09-24.