Microsoft IQ gives enterprise agents grounded context via four intelligence sources for meaningful outcomes
“Models give agents intelligence but contexts give that intelligence meaning”
Microsoft Build
11 tracked signals on Microsoft Build.
Microsoft positions Foundry as an operating system for running self-improving AI agents at enterprise scale.
“agents are teammates, not tools.”
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.”
Humans remain accountable for AI outputs because AI systems cannot be held responsible
“The AI is not accountable. Like, what are you going to do? Fire the AI? Dock the AI's pay?”
Microsoft unveiled Horizon DB for Postgres and a Cosmos DB agent memory toolkit for building AI apps and agents.
“Memory is one of the most important things when building your AI agents.”
Microsoft Work IQ provides organizational context to Copilot without explicit user prompting
“Work IQ is actually doing a lot of the hard work here and giving the information to Copilot so that Copilot can basically tell me exactly what I need to know.”
GitHub Copilot's agentic workflows have fundamentally shifted VS Code from local client to cloud-backed AI service
“the product is not just the client software that is installed and runs on your local machine, but it's actually hitting a service that supports the intelligence behind GitHub Copilot”
Microsoft's official MCP SDK lets developers build AI-connected servers in minutes with minimal code
“We've already turned our application into an MCP server.”
Microsoft showed off new AI-native hardware at Build 2026, including a Surface RTX dev machine and a Copilot 'badge' device.
“It is the first piece of AI native hardware that any of us have ever seen.”
Adding AI natural language search to a developer resource site replaced keyword search
“I added AI to my database and now any search is not a keyword search anymore, it's just a natural language search which makes the website navigation and usage much more much more expected, user-friendly”
AMD and Microsoft promote their partnership and developer ecosystem at Microsoft Build, emphasizing experimentation.
“Now the cost to explore is zero, really.”