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Microsoft Build 2025 | Satya Nadella Opening Keynote
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I started programming at maybe 15.
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I just couldn't pull myself away from these machines.
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I wanted to be a developer and write code.
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I started creating my own video games.
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Becoming a programmer opened the world for me.
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I'm super excited about AI; that's the reason why I started developing software.
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Programming with an agent is really empowering; it's like an extension of myself that helps me go further.
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No project or idea is too big when you have AI available to everyone.
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Knowing that my project is being used by people to make their lives better is the best feeling in the world.
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Everything we do is about empowering others to make the world better.
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Satya Nadella
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Good morning and welcome to Build; it's always fun to be back, especially in times like this.
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We're in the middle innings of another platform shift, where all things happen and scale.
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We're building out this open agentic web at scale, expanding opportunities for developers across every layer of the stack.
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Software engineering has always been about having the right tools to bring ideas to life and tame complexity.
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Visual Studio now has over 50 million users, and GitHub has 150 million users, with GitHub Copilot being used by more than 15 million developers.
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Satya Nadella
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We're rolling out new updates at Build, starting with Visual Studio, which is the most powerful IDE for .NET and C++.
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We're moving to a monthly cadence for stable releases of Visual Studio.
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We're open sourcing GitHub Copilot in VS Code, integrating AI-powered capabilities directly into the core of VS Code.
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With Copilot, you can assign tasks to agents and have them execute them or work side by side with AI to complete jobs and projects.
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The SRE agent starts automatically triaging and mitigating live site issues, logging incident management reports as GitHub issues.
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We're introducing a full coding agent built into GitHub, taking Copilot from being a pair programmer to a peer programmer.
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With Copilot Tuning, you can now fine-tune models for every customer and enterprise, allowing Copilot to learn your company's unique tone and language.
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With Grok, especially Grok 3.5, we're applying physics tools to reasoning, aspiring to truth with minimal error.
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We aim to minimize errors over time while acknowledging that mistakes will happen, which is crucial for AI safety.
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Honesty is the best policy for ensuring AI safety, and we aspire to correct our mistakes quickly.
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We're looking forward to feedback from the developer community to improve Grok and ensure it meets their needs.
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With Foundry, you can provision throughput once and use it across multiple models, including Grok, which changes how we think about model provisioning.
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Mistral allows provisioning with sovereign deployment in the EU, which is increasingly important for global application development.
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Building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications requires a sophisticated retrieval system, not just vector search and embeddings.
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A modern knowledge retrieval stack for agents should understand user intent and data context, enabling complex queries to be processed efficiently.
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The Foundry agent service allows for the creation of declarative agents with minimal code, supporting complex workflows and multi-agent orchestration.
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We're providing a full spectrum of compute options, from serverless Azure functions to Azure Container apps, to optimize performance for agentic scenarios.
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Foundry Local and Windows AI Foundry enable developers to fine-tune models and integrate them into Copilot Studio for workflow automation.
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Stanford Medicine is using AI to orchestrate tumor board meetings, integrating patient history and clinical data to enhance cancer care.
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Timothy Keyes
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The healthcare agent orchestrator, deployable through Azure AI Foundry, helps streamline patient decision-making processes in clinical settings.
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Joel Neal
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The integration of AI in healthcare aims to reduce the effort spent on mechanical tasks, allowing clinicians to focus on decision-making.
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Satya Nadella
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We're making the healthcare agent orchestrator available to everyone in Foundry, enhancing its utility across the healthcare sector.
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Windows is evolving to be the best platform for AI, with new features and capabilities that support a wide range of applications.
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Windows AI Foundry will support the full development lifecycle across various hardware, enabling developers to build applications that run seamlessly on all devices.
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We're announcing native support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) in Windows, enhancing the integration of applications and services.
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Kevin Scott
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The agentic web is emerging as a collaborative ecosystem where agents can perform increasingly complex tasks, driven by open protocols and services.
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Kevin Scott
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An agent is something a human can delegate tasks to, and we're aiming for agents to handle more complex tasks over time.
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Kevin Scott
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The reasoning capabilities of AI models are improving, and we encourage developers to set ambitious goals for what they can achieve with these models.
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Kevin Scott
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Robust agentic memory is essential for agents to recall past interactions and preferences, making them more personalized and effective.
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Agents need to be connected to the broader world through protocols like MCP and A2A to take actions on behalf of users effectively.
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MCP has rapidly gained traction because it fills a crucial niche in the open agentic web ecosystem, functioning similarly to HTTP by allowing sophisticated actions without imposing strict payload opinions.
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We're committing to making MCP the standard protocol for agentic communication between agents and services, enabling seamless integration of Microsoft's first-party platform components.
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We're collaborating with partners like Anthropic to address complex enterprise challenges on top of the MCP protocol, such as agent identification and building a robust entitlements infrastructure.
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The utility of a protocol like MCP is enhanced by its ubiquity, allowing developers to build on a standard that everyone can use, fostering innovation across the ecosystem.
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NLWeb allows anyone with a website or API to easily transform their offerings into agentic applications, leveraging the full power of large language models to enhance existing services.
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NLWeb endpoints function as MCP servers, making them accessible to any agent that communicates using MCP, akin to HTML for the agentic web.
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We've successfully partnered with companies like TripAdvisor and O'Reilly Media to implement NLWeb, enabling them to create agentic experiences on their platforms.
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The agentic web vision aims to distribute both content and intelligence across the web, making it more discoverable and democratizing the creation of intelligence for any application.
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We're building a comprehensive data stack that includes tools like Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Databricks to enhance data accessibility and integration for AI applications.
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The integration of Cosmos DB into Foundry allows agents to store and retrieve conversational history and supports various application needs, enhancing the capabilities of AI applications.
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We're introducing AI-driven transformations in OneLake, enabling users to apply prebuilt AI-powered transformations like audio-to-text and sentiment analysis with minimal effort.
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Copilot in Power BI will allow users to interact with their data through a chat interface, enabling visual exploration and analysis across multiple reports and models.
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We're taking a systems approach to optimize the entire infrastructure stack, ensuring the lowest cost and highest scale for building cloud and AI workloads.
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Azure is the first cloud to scale Nvidia's GB200 supercomputer, achieving the highest throughput for any cloud platform with 865,000 tokens per second.
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We're expanding Azure with over 70 data center regions, more than any other provider, to support the growing demands of AI workloads.
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Microsoft Discovery aims to revolutionize the scientific process by applying advanced agents for research and development, enabling continuous iterative cycles for generating and validating hypotheses.
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Microsoft Discovery is designed for science, utilizing a graph-based knowledge engine to understand nuanced scientific knowledge and facilitate research and development.
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The iterative process in Microsoft Discovery allows agents to generate hypotheses and run experiments, significantly reducing the time required for scientific discoveries.
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We successfully synthesized a promising candidate for an immersion coolant that does not rely on harmful chemicals, demonstrating the potential of Microsoft Discovery across various domains.
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The World Bank's study in Nigeria showed that using Copilot was the most effective educational intervention involving technology, leading to its expansion into Peru for enhancing lesson plans and improving student outcomes.