🚀 AI Horizon: Inside Microsoft Build 2025’s AI Agent Revolution 🚀
At Build 2025, Microsoft unveiled six major AI innovations that mark a significant leap toward an open, agentic web: an autonomous GitHub Copilot coding agent, Windows AI Foundry with native Model Context Protocol (MCP) support, low-code Microsoft 365 Copilot Tuning, expanded Azure AI Foundry capabilities, the Microsoft Discovery platform for scientific R&D, and open web protocols like NLWeb to connect AI agents across the internet . These announcements underscore Microsoft’s vision for AI agents that seamlessly collaborate with humans and each other to streamline workflows and spark innovation.
🧑💻 Autonomous Coding with GitHub Copilot
Microsoft transformed Copilot from a mere coding assistant into a genuine team member: assign it a GitHub issue, and it will spin up a secure dev environment, draft a pull request, and iterate on feedback—all asynchronously. Available to Copilot Enterprise and Copilot Pro+ customers, the agent excels at feature work, bug fixes, refactoring, and documentation improvements while respecting branch protections and security policies.
💻 Windows AI Foundry & MCP
Windows 11 now natively supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP), originally developed by Anthropic, letting AI agents connect directly with native apps, system services, and tools. Complementing this, Windows AI Foundry enables developers to fine-tune and deploy open-source or custom AI models on CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs in Copilot+ PCs—pushing more capabilities on-device for speed and privacy.
🔧 Microsoft 365 Copilot Tuning
With Microsoft 365 Copilot Tuning, organizations can now build domain-specific AI agents without writing a single line of code. Integrated into Copilot Studio, the low-code tool provides “recipes” for Expert Q&A, Document Generation, and Summarization, letting companies train models on proprietary documents and workflows to reflect their unique language and processes.
⚙️ Azure AI Foundry Updates
Azure AI Foundry expanded its model catalog to include xAI’s Grok 3, Black Forest Labs’ Flux Pro 1.1, and over 10,000 open-source models from Hugging Face. Developers can fully customize these models via fine-tuning methods like LoRA/QLoRA and DPO, and orchestrate multi-agent workflows through the new Foundry Agent Service—complete with templates, actions, connectors, and a real-time model router for selecting the optimal model per query.
🔬 Accelerating R&D with Microsoft Discovery
Microsoft Discovery is an agentic platform designed to revolutionize scientific research by automating ideation, experimentation, and collaboration. Built on a graph-based knowledge engine, it seamlessly integrates specialized AI agents with proprietary data, industry-specific tools, and partner solutions to speed the end-to-end discovery lifecycle.
🌐 Building the Open Agentic Web
Under the leadership of CTO Kevin Scott, Microsoft is championing an “agentic web” where AI agents autonomously navigate platforms, protocols, and people. To fuel this vision, Microsoft joined the MCP Steering Committee, added enhanced security and governance layers, and introduced NLWeb, an open-source project that turns websites and APIs into agent-friendly interfaces—much like HTML did for browsers.
That’s a wrap for this edition of AI Horizon! We’ll keep tracking how these tools evolve and shape the future of AI-driven workflows. Until next time, stay curious and agentic!