Overview
About this event
What is Microsoft Build?
Microsoft Build is Microsoft's annual developer event where the company announces updates across AI, Copilot, Windows, Azure, GitHub, Microsoft 365, developer tools, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise software.
The event is mainly designed for developers, but it is also important for founders, business owners, product teams, IT leaders, marketers, and functional heads because Microsoft's updates often affect how businesses build software, use AI, manage cloud systems, automate workflows, and improve productivity.
What usually happens at Microsoft Build?
At Microsoft Build, Microsoft usually introduces new AI tools, developer platforms, cloud services, Windows updates, Copilot features, GitHub updates, Azure improvements, and enterprise productivity tools.
The event sets the tone for how Microsoft's ecosystem will evolve over the next year — and it's where Satya Nadella and the leadership team make their biggest strategic announcements for developers and enterprise customers.
When did Microsoft Build 2026 take place?
Microsoft Build 2026 took place on June 2 and 3, 2026, at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, California, with online access also available. Full session recordings are on the official Microsoft Build 2026 website
What happened at Microsoft Build 2026?
8 topicsMicrosoft Build 2026 took place on June 2 and 3 in San Francisco at Fort Mason Center, with online access also available. CEO Satya Nadella hosted the keynote alongside Mustafa Suleyman and a guest appearance from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
AI Models
- MAI-Thinking-1 launched as Microsoft's first in-house reasoning model with 35 billion parameters and a 128K context window, built for complex multi-step reasoning and code generation
- The broader MAI model family expanded to include MAI-Image 2.5, MAI-Transcribe 1.5, MAI-Voice-2, and MAI-Code-1-Flash
Agents
- Microsoft Scout launched as the first in a new category called Autopilots, an always-on personal agent available in desktop preview for Frontier customers in the US
- GitHub Copilot desktop app launched in preview as a full agentic development environment
- Agent Control Specification released as an open standard for agent runtime governance
- Microsoft 365 Agent SDK went generally available, free and framework-agnostic
Microsoft IQ
- Microsoft IQ launched as the unified intelligence layer across GitHub Copilot, Foundry, and Copilot Studio
- Work IQ pulls from Microsoft 365 signals including emails, documents, meetings, and org relationships
- Fabric IQ grounds agents in structured business data
- Web IQ provides live web grounding
- Work IQ APIs open on June 16
Microsoft Foundry
- Hosted Agents going generally available by end of June with hypervisor-isolated sandboxing and per-agent Entra ID
- Over 11,000 models in the catalogue including Claude Opus 4.8 in preview and OpenAI GPT-5.5 going generally available
- Frontier Tuning launched in private preview, allowing agents to learn how a business operates within compliance boundaries
Windows and Platform
- Windows repositioned as a developer AI platform with Coreutils, WSL containers, Intelligent Terminal, and new Dev Configurations
- Aion 1.0 Plan introduced for local reasoning and tool calling on AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm processors
- Windows 365 for Agents launched as secure Cloud PCs for agent workloads
- MXC execution containers built into Windows for policy-driven agent isolation
Pricing
Copilot Credits introduced as the named consumption meter for agent work, priced at $0.01 per credit or available as prepaid packs
Hardware
- Surface RTX Spark Dev Box announced with Nvidia's Arm-based RTX Spark chip, 128GB unified memory, and up to 1 petaflop of AI compute, shipping in the US later this year
- Project Solara unveiled as a concept platform for AI-native devices that run agents instead of apps
Quantum
Majorana 2 announced with an average qubit lifetime of 20 seconds, 1,000x higher reliability than the previous generation, and a path to one million qubits on a single chip. Microsoft targets a scalable quantum machine by 2029
Venue
Fort Mason Center
Easy transit access; cafés and hotels nearby. Detailed wayfinding ships with your registration confirmation.
Date & Time
Jun 2–3
Starts 9:00 AM PDT
Location
San Francisco, CA
Fort Mason Center, USA
Format
Hybrid
In-person & Livestream
Recap: 2025 & 2024
The biggest announcements from the last 2 Microsoft Build editions.
Microsoft Build 2025 Recap
Microsoft Build 2025 focused on the rise of AI agents, the open agentic web, developer productivity, GitHub Copilot, Azure AI, Windows AI, and tools for building AI-powered applications.
Microsoft described Build 2025 as the start of the "age of AI agents" and said more than 15 million developers were already using GitHub Copilot. Microsoft also said Build 2025 included more than 50 announcements for developers.
Watch the Satya Nadella opening keynote, the Day 2 keynote, or read a developer's guide to Build 2025 for the full breakdown.
Main announcements included:
- AI agents becoming a major focus across Microsoft products
- GitHub Copilot updates for coding, review, deployment, and troubleshooting
- New tools for building agentic apps and workflows
- Updates across Azure AI and Microsoft cloud services
- More support for developers building with AI models and data
- Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio improvements
- Windows AI updates for developers
- Focus on building the open agentic web
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