Releases

Microsoft makes Fabric IQ grounding generally available in Copilot Chat and Cowork, connecting governed Power BI business context to AI workflows.

Microsoft launches Copilot Managed Runtime in preview as governed hosting infrastructure for Copilot-created apps and automations.

Microsoft introduces Cowork for delegating complex end-to-end work and returning completed deliverables for iteration.

Microsoft introduces Autopilot, formerly Scout, as a persistent agent that proactively performs recurring and long-running work.

Microsoft introduces Home as Copilot's unified starting experience combining Chat, Cowork and editable Office documents.

Microsoft introduces Copilot Code for creating sandboxed applications, dashboards, automations and workflows through natural language.

Microsoft AI introduces Frontier Tuning, using reinforcement-learning environments to adapt MAI models to organization-specific workflows.

Microsoft introduces Agent 365 as the trust, management and observability layer for enterprise AI agents.

Microsoft IQ becomes generally available across GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Foundry and Copilot Studio as an enterprise context layer for agents.

Microsoft introduces an integrated enterprise agent platform spanning GitHub, Foundry, Microsoft IQ, Copilot Studio, security and governance.

GitHub opens Spark to public preview for building and deploying full-stack applications from natural-language prompts.

Microsoft introduces Discovery, an agentic AI platform for scientific research and industrial R&D.

Microsoft introduces Copilot Tuning for adapting models and agents to organization-specific data, workflows and expertise.

Microsoft launches Windows AI Foundry as a unified platform for the local and cloud AI developer lifecycle on Windows.

Microsoft makes Azure AI Foundry Agent Service generally available with multi-agent orchestration and open-protocol support.

GitHub launches an asynchronous Copilot coding agent that works in an isolated environment and opens pull requests for review.

Microsoft begins rolling out its Wave 2 spring release with Researcher, Analyst, Agent Store, richer creation and expanded enterprise search.

Microsoft updates Copilot with personalization through Memory, task execution through Actions, Deep Research and expanded Vision capabilities.

Microsoft announces Analyst, a Microsoft 365 Copilot reasoning agent for data analysis, modeling and report creation.

Microsoft announces Researcher and Analyst as reasoning agents for multistep research and data analysis in Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Microsoft introduces Dragon Copilot, combining ambient clinical documentation, dictation and healthcare workflow assistance.

Microsoft launches Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat with web-grounded AI chat, work-data access and support for agents.

Microsoft begins previewing Copilot Vision, allowing Copilot to discuss and assist with shared browsing content.

Microsoft begins releasing Recall to Windows Insiders on supported Copilot+ PCs after redesigning security and privacy controls.

Microsoft launches Azure AI Agent Service in preview for building and managing enterprise AI agents.

Microsoft introduces Azure AI Foundry as a unified platform for developing, evaluating, deploying and governing AI applications and agents.

GitHub introduces Spark, an AI-native tool for building application experiences from natural language.

GitHub launches Models in beta, letting developers compare and experiment with multiple AI models inside GitHub.

Microsoft Designer exits preview as a standalone app and expands generative design capabilities across Microsoft products.

The first Copilot+ PCs become generally available from Microsoft and hardware partners.

Microsoft announces Recall, an on-device searchable visual history for Copilot+ PCs with user privacy controls.

Microsoft introduces Copilot+ PCs with neural processing units and a new generation of on-device AI experiences.

GitHub opens a technical preview of Copilot Workspace, an agentic environment for moving from issues to plans and implementations.

Security Copilot becomes generally available with integrations across Microsoft's security portfolio.

GitHub launches Copilot Enterprise with codebase-aware assistance and GitHub.com integration.

Microsoft Copilot becomes generally available with commercial data protection for eligible users.

Microsoft introduces Maia 100, its first custom AI accelerator for Azure training and inference workloads.

Microsoft introduces Copilot for Azure to help customers design, operate and troubleshoot cloud infrastructure using natural language.

Microsoft launches Copilot Studio as the low-code platform for customizing Microsoft Copilot and building standalone copilots.

Microsoft renames Bing Chat and Bing Chat Enterprise to Microsoft Copilot and expands commercial data protection.

Microsoft 365 Copilot becomes generally available to enterprise customers across productivity applications and Microsoft 365 Chat.

Microsoft makes Azure AI Content Safety generally available for detecting harmful content in text and images.

Microsoft and Nuance introduce DAX Copilot, combining ambient clinical intelligence with generative AI for automated documentation.

Microsoft begins rolling out Copilot in Windows as part of a Windows 11 feature update.

Microsoft announces a unified Microsoft Copilot experience across Windows, web, Edge and Microsoft 365.

Microsoft launches Bing Chat Enterprise with commercial data protection and announces Microsoft 365 Copilot pricing.

Microsoft introduces Security Copilot, a generative-AI assistant for security investigation, threat intelligence and response.

GitHub introduces Copilot X, including conversational Copilot Chat experiences across editors, pull requests and command-line workflows.

Microsoft launches Bing Image Creator, integrating generative image creation into Bing chat and the Edge sidebar.

Microsoft introduces Microsoft 365 Copilot and Business Chat, combining large language models with Microsoft Graph and productivity applications.