Microsoft launches unified Agent Platform at Build 2026 covering build, deploy, and operate layers
“The hard part starts after the prototype.”
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Nadella says Microsoft must earn community 'permission' before building AI data centers.
“Only when we live up to these principles, do the hard work around it, is when we earn the permission to go ahead and innovate and build.”
Snorkel argues task quality and data quality are the same, driving agentic training outcomes
“the quality of data is critical”
Coding agents grew 1400% in 2026, overwhelming GitHub's infrastructure built for human-speed development.
Microsoft Build opens framing the central question of fully participating in the frontier intelligence ecosystem.
“How do you all participate fully in this frontier intelligence ecosystem?”
FineWeb-Edu's 1.3T distilled tokens outperform the full 15T-token FineWeb dataset.
“even if a company that creates large language models publishes these models open source, they rarely publish their pre-training data as well because there is just very little incentive to do that”
AI models are more capable than how we actually deploy them, with deployment lagging capability even at Microsoft.
“just because an AI model is highly capable of something does not necessarily mean that quick deployment will follow”
NVIDIA unveils Cosmos 3, an open omnimodel for physical AI that perceives, generates, and acts.
“Cosmos, the foundation for developers of the age of physical AI.”
Conference attendees voice personal preferences between mechanical and low-profile keyboards.
“I built my own, so mechanical.”
NVIDIA's Vera Rubin, a multi-rack pod-scale supercomputer built for agentic AI, is now in full production.
“NVIDIA Vera Rubin is a multi-rackck podscale system built to process Agentic AI and is now in full production.”
Lovable is pursuing continuous learning at scale so its agent learns from each mistake only once.
“We want to have a mistake happen once and then never again.”
NVIDIA reframes its CUDA-X libraries as foundational tools for AI agents at GTC Taipei 2026.
“CUDA-X libraries are tools for agents.”
Supply-side agents capture org context and decisions without user access by living where work happens.
“you don't really need to have access to the user. What you need access to is the system of context as well as decisions are being made throughout the organization.”
NVIDIA DSX is a reference design for building gigawatt-scale AI factories at maximum efficiency and profitability.
“Today's AI factories over provision power by up to 40%.”
NVIDIA shows an open-source self-evolving Hermes Agent with NemoClaw for secure cross-source product research.
Baz built a Spec Review agent on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to automate code-vs-intent validation.
“Baz set out to close this gap by building agents that could evaluate not just code, but the actual delivered experience.”
A local agent on NVIDIA RTX Spark designs a house end-to-end using Rhino, Blender, and Claude Sonnet.
“What was once a complex workflow is now guided and simplified by my agent working with me on RTX Spark designed at the speed of imagination.”
Numerical mismatch in inference log-probabilities is a hidden bug plaguing large-scale asynchronous RL runs.
“Hopefully next composer versions are going to be our own model instead of basing it off an open source base.”
Databricks SQL Query Tags automatically attach contextual metadata to every warehouse query for attribution and observability.
Nathan Lambert is departing Ai2 to work on better-coordinating the open AI ecosystem.
“AI needs independent voices as it only becomes more geopolitical, socially disruptive, and central to the economy.”
Hugging Face released Holo3.1, computer-use agents that run fast and locally.
YouTube is being overrun by low-effort AI-generated 'slop' videos with fabricated facts made purely for profit.
“AI has destroyed the internet in less than 6 months.”
Listen Labs scales AI voice interviews to serve 20% of the Fortune 500 in customer research.
“as we get closer to AGI, it will be easier to build things, but the hard part will know what to build and that's what we're building at Listen”
Travelers deployed an OpenAI-built AI Claim Assistant countrywide to guide customers through filing claims.