Microsoft unveils AI agent platform, new models and developer platform advancements at Build 2026

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Microsoft announces updates at Build 2026, introducing a new AI agent platform and several AI models.

Microsoft has announced a series of updates at its Build 2026 conference, introducing a new platform for AI agents, seven new in-house AI models and a range of developer platform capabilities designed to support a new era of "ubiquitous intelligence". The company said the announcements are focused on enabling developers to build, deploy and manage intelligent systems with greater flexibility, control and security, while meeting enterprise requirements for governance and trust. Central to the updates is the new Microsoft Agent Platform, which allows developers to build agents using organisational context through Microsoft IQ, deploy them via Microsoft Foundry and access them across Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365. Microsoft said the platform is designed to reduce trade-offs between context and governance, security and speed, and between models and tools. Microsoft also announced that Microsoft IQ is now generally available across GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Foundry and Copilot Studio, providing a unified context layer across enterprise and external data. New capabilities include Work IQ, which captures how work happens across Microsoft 365, organisational systems and external…

Topics covered

• AI agents
• developer platform
• Microsoft updates
• Build 2026
• intelligent systems
• enterprise governance

Keywords

• Microsoft
• AI agents
• Build 2026
• developer platform
• intelligent systems
• Microsoft IQ
• Work IQ
• Web IQ
• MAI-Thinking-1

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Microsoft, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365

Products: Microsoft Agent Platform, Microsoft IQ, Microsoft Foundry, GitHub Copilot, Copilot Studio, Work IQ, Web IQ, MAI-Thinking-1

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