Build is Microsoft’s main developer event for the year, and it’s typically where the company unveils its latest Windows road map alongside additions to Office, Azure, and many other software and services. At Build 2025, we’re expecting a lot of news on Copilot and Microsoft’s other AI initiatives.
Microsoft’s Windows chief, Pavan Davuluri, is discussing the company’s new push to get developers to build AI apps on Windows. He argues Windows is the most open platform for AI, just hours after announcing a new Windows Copilot Runtime that sets the stage for the next decade of Windows app development.
Pavan Davuluri had a busy day announcing new Arm-based Surface devices yesterday and a big push to bring more AI-powered experiences and apps to Windows. The Windows and Surface chief is now onstage at Microsoft Build to discuss Microsoft’s Copilot Plus PCs and Windows AI.
Microsoft is making some improvements to Teams aimed at developers. You can now paste source code inside Teams with syntax formatting. There’s even co-editing with Loop, better keyboard shortcuts, and custom emoji.
Microsoft’s Jeff Teper, head of collab apps and platforms, is walking the Build audience through the company’s new Copilot connectors and extensions. They’re designed for businesses to extend the AI assistant to their line of business apps and add data from public websites, SharePoint, OneDrive, and more.
Rajesh Jha, Microsoft’s head of experiences and devices, is up next at Build to discuss everything Copilot. It’s largely a recap so far, but there’s a lot of new Copilot features on the way.
Microsoft’s new Team Copilot feature will allow the assistant to manage meeting agendas and notes, moderate lengthy team chats, or help assign tasks and track deadlines in Microsoft Planner. It’s part of a new wave of agent capabilities for Copilot that you can read more about right here.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says Sam Altman will appear onstage at Build soon to “talk about what’s next” with Microsoft CTO and EVP of AI Kevin Scott. Will we hear about OpenAI’s search engine, powered partly by Bing? GPT-5? Vague promises of the AI future? Stay tuned.
OpenAI’s latest GPT-4o model is now available for businesses to use through Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service. The model includes multimodal input and output, and Microsoft has demonstrated new ways developers can leverage this model for conversational AI in their apps.
Microsoft mentioned yesterday that in addition to all the Snapdragon-powered PCs announced, we would also see those AI PC experiences ship in computers powered by Intel, AMD, and Nvidia as well. Now Nvidia suggests it won’t be a long wait:
In the coming months, Copilot+ PCs equipped with new power-efficient systems-on-a-chip and RTX GPUs will be released, giving gamers, creators, enthusiasts and developers increased performance to tackle demanding local AI workloads, along with Microsoft’s new Copilot+ features.
Microsoft is now allowing businesses to preview its new Arm-based Cobalt CPU on Azure virtual machines. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced onstage at Build that the preview opens today, and these chips should include some performance increases for cloud workloads.
Lots of applause from the developers in the audience at Microsoft Build for the company’s new Windows Copilot Runtime. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella likens this to a big moment like Win32, allowing developers to more easily build AI into their Windows apps.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has opened Build 2024 by discussing the new AI era. He says Microsoft has had two dreams for decades:
1) Can computers understand us instead of us having to understand computers?
2) In a world where we have ever-increasing information, can computers help us reason, plan, and act more effectively on all that information?
Nadella is positioning this wave of AI as the answer to Microsoft’s dreams.
Fluid Framework 2.0 lets multiple people work together in Microsoft’s Notion-like Loop workspaces and turns Office document items like charts, tables, and lists into “Lego pieces” that can be edited in real time from any app.
Starting today, outside developers are getting preview access to the technology that gave Microsoft 365 apps a Google Workspace-like boost, stretching those abilities for collaboration even further.
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We saw the video editor’s new feature demoed at Microsoft’s Surface event in Richmond, where new Copilot Plus Surface Laptops and an updated Surface Pro with Qualcomm’s AI-ready chips have been announced.
The demo suggests the CPU and GPU won’t have to break much of a sweat, if any, when offloading tasks like these.
Native Arm64 versions of Photoshop, Lightroom, Firefly, and Express are available starting today, Adobe announced at the Surface event going on in Richmond right now. Illustrator and Premiere Pro won’t be far behind with June arrivals.
New Copilot Plus laptops and tablets with the architecture will be able to run the apps as soon as they arrive.
Like many other assistants and AI devices plugged into OpenAI’s latest LLM, Microsoft just announced at today’s Surface event that Copilot will soon be plugged into GPT-4o (and powered by new Surface Plus PCs). They demonstrated the integration by showing Copilot guide a player through Minecraft, using GPT-4o to see and react to what was happening onscreen.
What is the company announcing one day ahead of Google’s presumably AI-heavy I/O 2024 event tomorrow? According to Sam Altman, what OpenAI has in store is not the rumored search engine or GPT-5 updates, but we’ll find out what it really is at 1PM ET / 10AM PT.
It’s been a long time coming but Microsoft Teams avatars are finally here. The avatars will work on Windows PCs or Macs, allowing Teams users to create a 3D avatar to use in meetings instead of being on camera or even needing a webcam. Microsoft also has its immersive spaces for Microsoft Teams in private preview now.
Microsoft Fabric is a data analytics platform. It’s probably one of the biggest data product announcements from the software giant since SQL server. It’s designed to pull data from Microsoft’s OneLake data lake, Amazon S3, and even Google Cloud soon. Microsoft has even added an AI Copilot to Microsoft Fabric, too.
A big part of Microsoft’s announcements at Build this year is OpenAI interoperability for Bing plug-ins, Microsoft Copilot plug-ins, and ChatGPT plug-ins. This means developers and users can create plug-ins that work across multiple chatbots, thanks to Microsoft’s close partnership with OpenAI. Read more about it here.
Bing will now be the default search engine in OpenAI’s ChatGPT AI chatbot. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella demonstrated how it works on stage at Microsoft Build today. “This is just the start of what we plan to do with our partners in OpenAI to bring the best of Bing to the ChatGPT experience,” says Nadella. Read more about how it works here.
