Microsoft Build 2026 keynote recap and announcements

1Build 2026 relocated from Seattle to San Francisco for the first time, running June 2-5, 2026.
2Microsoft IQ, a new context layer grounding agents in enterprise and world knowledge, is GA.
3Work IQ APIs became generally available June 16, giving agents programmatic access to workplace context.
4Microsoft Scout, a personal always-on agent built on OpenClaw and Work IQ, launched for Frontier customers.
5MAI-Thinking-1, Microsoft AI's first in-house reasoning model, is in private preview on Foundry.
6Agent 365 for local agents extends Entra, Defender and Purview to govern agents anywhere they run.
7Microsoft Discovery, the agentic science platform, is now generally available.
8Majorana 2, Microsoft's quantum chip, hit a 20-second average qubit lifetime with a path to a million qubits.

Microsoft IQContext layer grounding agents in enterprise and world knowledgeGA
Work IQ APIsProgrammatic access to workplace intelligence, GA June 16Coming
Microsoft ScoutPersonal always-on work agent, available to Frontier customersAnnounced
MAI-Thinking-1Microsoft AI's first reasoning model, private preview on FoundryPreview
MAI-Image-2.5Microsoft's first text-to-image and image-to-image modelsAnnounced
Agent 365 for local agentsExtends Entra, Defender, Purview to govern local agentsAnnounced
Microsoft DiscoveryAgentic AI platform for the full science workflowGA
Majorana 2Next-gen quantum chip, 1000x more reliable qubit lifetimeAnnounced

Build 2026Keynote recap and announcements