Microsoft Foundry assembles agents, tuning, evals, and OpenEnv into an owned reinforcement-learning loop that improves over time.
“the durable asset is not the model you rent, it is the learning loop you own”
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9 tracked signals on build-2026.
Microsoft frames Build 2026 as an AI ecosystem play, not a single model or platform, anchored by its MAI models.
“let's sort of conceptualize this more as an ecosystem play as opposed to a single model or even a single platform”
Microsoft Discovery brings agentic, VS Code-based AI to scientific research, running specialized agents that hypothesize, simulate, and create new agents on the fly.
“If Microsoft Discovery does not find an agent for a task, it will create one on the fly”
Microsoft AI shipped seven first-party models including MAI Thinking One, its first frontier reasoning model.
“We call our approach humanist superintelligence.”
Microsoft launches unified Agent Platform at Build 2026 covering build, deploy, and operate layers
“The hard part starts after the prototype.”
Microsoft Foundry's agent tracing and evaluations hit GA and now extend to any agent framework and deployment target.
“Shipping an AI agent is the easy part. Keeping it accurate, safe, and accountable in production is where teams get stuck.”
Microsoft Teams SDK for collaborative agents is now generally available in Python, JavaScript, and C#
“The real opportunity with agents in Microsoft Teams isn't just automation—the most impactful agents are active participants in how work gets done.”
Microsoft launches Work IQ Developer Tools as a guided Copilot plugin development lifecycle wrapper
Microsoft pitches migrating Oracle and PostgreSQL workloads to managed Postgres on Azure at Build 2026.
“OpenAI is a good example. Um, they're willing to bet their production workloads on manage Postgress running on Azure.”