Microsoft
Microsoft BuildKeynotes year over year
2
Keynotes
16
Announced
19%
GA at launch
Announcements per year
20258
20268
GAPreviewComingAnnounced
What changed year over year
2025
- Satya Nadella framed the event around building an open agentic web at scale.
- GitHub Copilot now has 15 million developers using it.
- GitHub Copilot coding agent is a full agentic partner built into GitHub.
- Microsoft 365 Copilot Tuning lets customers train agents on their own company data.
- Microsoft announced broad first-party support for Model Context Protocol (MCP).
- GitHub Copilot coding agentAnnounced
- Windows AI FoundryAnnounced
- Azure AI Foundry Agent ServiceGA
- Microsoft Entra Agent IDPreview
- Model Context Protocol supportAnnounced
- NLWebAnnounced
- 2 more
2026
- Build 2026 relocated from Seattle to San Francisco for the first time, running June 2-5, 2026.
- Microsoft IQ, a new context layer grounding agents in enterprise and world knowledge, is GA.
- Work IQ APIs became generally available June 16, giving agents programmatic access to workplace context.
- Microsoft Scout, a personal always-on agent built on OpenClaw and Work IQ, launched for Frontier customers.
- MAI-Thinking-1, Microsoft AI's first in-house reasoning model, is in private preview on Foundry.
- Microsoft IQGA
- Work IQ APIsComing
- Microsoft ScoutAnnounced
- MAI-Thinking-1Preview
- MAI-Image-2.5Announced
- Agent 365 for local agentsAnnounced
- 2 more
Keynotes
Build 2026Jun 2, 2026Satya Nadella- Build 2026 relocated from Seattle to San Francisco for the first time, running June 2-5, 2026.
- Microsoft IQ, a new context layer grounding agents in enterprise and world knowledge, is GA.
- Work IQ APIs became generally available June 16, giving agents programmatic access to workplace context.
Build 2025May 19, 2025Satya Nadella- Satya Nadella framed the event around building an open agentic web at scale.
- GitHub Copilot now has 15 million developers using it.
- GitHub Copilot coding agent is a full agentic partner built into GitHub.
Companies on stage
Nvidia
GitHub
xAI
Fujitsu
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