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Microsoft Build 2025: 7 Breakthroughs That Prove AI Agents Are the Future

Microsoft Build 2025 just dropped a roadmap for the next era of enterprise innovation - and it’s all about AI agents. These digital coworkers aren’t just intelligent assistants. They’re capable of reasoning, acting, and collaborating across your organization to accelerate transformation.

Here are the seven most significant announcements from Build 2025 that are reshaping how enterprises work with AI:

1. AI Agents Are Now First-Class Citizens in the Microsoft Ecosystem

Microsoft introduced its bold vision of the open agentic web, where AI agents act autonomously and make decisions across systems and users. These agents aren’t just copilots - they’re collaborators.

Now used by over 15 million developers, GitHub Copilot is evolving into a fully agentic coding partner, with asynchronous capabilities and open-source Copilot Chat integrated directly into VS Code.

2. Windows AI Foundry Brings Seamless AI Development to Every Machine

Windows AI Foundry is a new platform designed to support the full AI lifecycle - from training to deployment - on Windows. It offers easy-to-use APIs for vision and language tasks and supports open-source and proprietary models.

It’s a game-changer for developers working in hybrid environments who need speed, scale, and flexibility.

3. Azure AI Foundry Supercharges Model Selection & Performance

Azure AI Foundry introduced two standout tools:

  • Model Leaderboard: Compares and ranks top-performing AI models.
  • Model Router: Automatically matches the best model to the task at hand.

These innovations make building performant, cost-efficient AI solutions faster and more precise than ever.

4. Microsoft 365 Copilot Just Got Personal

With Copilot Tuning, businesses can train Microsoft 365 Copilot on their workflows and data, creating domain-specific agents that work like a real teammate.

Copilot Studio also now supports multi-agent orchestration, letting different agents team up to tackle more complex tasks in parallel.

5. New Standards for a Safer, Smarter AI Ecosystem

Microsoft is setting the foundation for the future with:

  • Model Context Protocol (MCP): A standard for managing AI agent interactions across environments.
  • NLWeb: A new way for websites to present content through natural language interfaces so that agents can interpret and interact with them.

This open, secure approach is critical for enterprise adoption at scale.

6. Microsoft Discovery Is Reinventing R&D with Agentic AI

Microsoft Discovery is a new scientific research platform accelerating innovation with AI agents. It’s aimed at high-impact industries like life sciences, healthcare, and energy.

This signals a massive shift in how data-driven discovery happens, and enterprises should take note.

7. The Tools to Build with Confidence Are Here

From observability dashboards in Azure to open-source Copilot integrations in GitHub, Microsoft’s new tools empower teams to build and deploy AI responsibly, with visibility into performance, cost, and safety.

This is the infrastructure that makes AI Agents enterprise-ready.

Why This Matters for Your Business

For Launch and our clients, Microsoft Build 2025 confirmed what we’ve been championing: AI Agents are the backbone of the next-gen enterprise.

Whether optimizing workflows, transforming customer experience, or future-proofing R&D, AI agents can help you move faster, think smarter, and scale innovation across every function.

Ready to turn AI Agents into your competitive advantage?

Let’s talk about how to integrate these breakthroughs into your enterprise roadmap - securely, ethically, and at scale.

👉 Explore our Microsoft partnership

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Microsoft Build 2025 just dropped a roadmap for the next era of enterprise innovation - and it’s all about AI agents. These digital coworkers aren’t just intelligent assistants. They’re capable of reasoning, acting, and collaborating across your organization to accelerate transformation.

Here are the seven most significant announcements from Build 2025 that are reshaping how enterprises work with AI:

1. AI Agents Are Now First-Class Citizens in the Microsoft Ecosystem

Microsoft introduced its bold vision of the open agentic web, where AI agents act autonomously and make decisions across systems and users. These agents aren’t just copilots - they’re collaborators.

Now used by over 15 million developers, GitHub Copilot is evolving into a fully agentic coding partner, with asynchronous capabilities and open-source Copilot Chat integrated directly into VS Code.

2. Windows AI Foundry Brings Seamless AI Development to Every Machine

Windows AI Foundry is a new platform designed to support the full AI lifecycle - from training to deployment - on Windows. It offers easy-to-use APIs for vision and language tasks and supports open-source and proprietary models.

It’s a game-changer for developers working in hybrid environments who need speed, scale, and flexibility.

3. Azure AI Foundry Supercharges Model Selection & Performance

Azure AI Foundry introduced two standout tools:

  • Model Leaderboard: Compares and ranks top-performing AI models.
  • Model Router: Automatically matches the best model to the task at hand.

These innovations make building performant, cost-efficient AI solutions faster and more precise than ever.

4. Microsoft 365 Copilot Just Got Personal

With Copilot Tuning, businesses can train Microsoft 365 Copilot on their workflows and data, creating domain-specific agents that work like a real teammate.

Copilot Studio also now supports multi-agent orchestration, letting different agents team up to tackle more complex tasks in parallel.

5. New Standards for a Safer, Smarter AI Ecosystem

Microsoft is setting the foundation for the future with:

  • Model Context Protocol (MCP): A standard for managing AI agent interactions across environments.
  • NLWeb: A new way for websites to present content through natural language interfaces so that agents can interpret and interact with them.

This open, secure approach is critical for enterprise adoption at scale.

6. Microsoft Discovery Is Reinventing R&D with Agentic AI

Microsoft Discovery is a new scientific research platform accelerating innovation with AI agents. It’s aimed at high-impact industries like life sciences, healthcare, and energy.

This signals a massive shift in how data-driven discovery happens, and enterprises should take note.

7. The Tools to Build with Confidence Are Here

From observability dashboards in Azure to open-source Copilot integrations in GitHub, Microsoft’s new tools empower teams to build and deploy AI responsibly, with visibility into performance, cost, and safety.

This is the infrastructure that makes AI Agents enterprise-ready.

Why This Matters for Your Business

For Launch and our clients, Microsoft Build 2025 confirmed what we’ve been championing: AI Agents are the backbone of the next-gen enterprise.

Whether optimizing workflows, transforming customer experience, or future-proofing R&D, AI agents can help you move faster, think smarter, and scale innovation across every function.

Ready to turn AI Agents into your competitive advantage?

Let’s talk about how to integrate these breakthroughs into your enterprise roadmap - securely, ethically, and at scale.

👉 Explore our Microsoft partnership

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