Microsoft Build 2025: Latest products, announcements

Nadella just wrapped up the keynote address with a video about how Copilot is being used in Peru. No announcements about new hardware were made. But fret not- Build 2025 will run for 3 more days. Until then..stay tuned!

Microsoft Discovery is a new AI tool designed to further scientific innovations across multiple scientific fields. A demonstration shown just now proved to be successful.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang just made a virtual appearance at Build, to discuss how computing works in 2025. He also explained how much faster AI has become in the last few years.

GitHub Copilot is now available in the .NET Aspire dashboard, serving as your new AI debugging assistant. You can now review hundreds of log messages with one click, investigate root cause of errors across multiple apps, and also explain obscure error codes.

Microsoft just announced NLWeb at the Build conference. It will make it easy for websites to offer a conversational interface for their users, with a model of their choice and their own data. Users can now directly interact with web content in a semantic manner.

Microsoft now supports Model Context Protocol (MCP) across its agent platform and frameworks, spanning GitHub, Copilot Studio, and Windows 11. The firm has also joined the MCP Steering Committee to improve secure and at-scale adoption of the open protocol.

Windows AI Foundry can work across CPUs, GPUs, the cloud, and more. It can automatically detect a Windows machine’s hardware and fetch the required software to run a particular AI model. Quite revolutionary indeed.

Windows is certainly not being ignored. Nadella just announced Windows AI Foundry. It is being described as a unified platform for local AI development ie. fine-tuning, optimizing, and deploying the AI models underpinning Windows apps.

Using Copilot Tuning, companies can use their own data, workflows and processes to train models and create agents easily. These agents can perform accurate and domain-specific tasks from inside the Microsoft 365 service boundary.

Microsoft has announced a new platform called Microsoft Discovery. It uses agentic AI to transform the scientific discovery process. It will help accelerate research by transforming the entire discovery process, from scientific knowledge reasoning to hypothesis formulation, candidate generation, and finally simulation and analysis.

Elon Musk just made a virtual appearance at Build 2025 to discuss Grok 3.5 as well as the partnership he has with Microsoft. Grok will certainly be a part of the deal.

Tonight, Microsoft announced that is getting rid of developer onboarding fees for the Microsoft Store on Windows. Starting next month, developers can sign up and publish apps on the Store without paying to register an account.

Nadella claimed that developers will be able to onboard new partners with the use of AI agents. This will be aided by a new program known as Copilot tuning.

Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry platform now offers access to Elon Musk-owned xAI's Grok models, specifically Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini. However, don't expect responses to be as unfiltered as the Grok models on X.

Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is open-source starting today. This feature allows users to enable a Linux environment within Windows.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman joined tonight's Build event virtually. He spoke about how AI agents can help take on bigger workloads than before. Altman also claimed that AI is becoming smarter and more reliable.

Edge is getting a feature that will let you convert a PDF into more than 70 languages, by pressing the “translate” button in the browser’s address bar. It should be available to all users starting next month.

Microsoft says that web developers will be able to start using on-device AI in Microsoft’s Edge browser soon. This will be done using new APIs that can offer web apps access to the Phi-4-mini model.

CEO Satya Nadella is on the stage taking about GitHub. It is getting an AI coding agent that can do things like fix bugs, add features, and improve documentation on behalf of the developer.

Microsoft has started tonight's event with a montage of tech developments over the years. From Windows 95 to Copilot, we just went down the memory lane.