Releases

Microsoft closed with an estimated public equity market capitalization of $3.809 trillion based on its Nasdaq-listed MSFT shares.

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 makes MAI-Image-2.6 and its Flash variant available in public preview through Microsoft Foundry.

Microsoft AI launches MAI-Transcribe-2 with automatic language identification and high-speed transcription across 60 languages.

Microsoft AI announces MAI-Image-2.6 with major benchmark improvements in generation and image editing.

Microsoft AI announces MAI-Voice-2 Flash as a lower-cost, ultra-efficient speech-generation variant.

Microsoft AI launches MAI-Voice-2 with natural multilingual speech generation and safeguarded short-sample voice adaptation.

Microsoft AI launches MAI-Transcribe-1.5 with high-speed transcription and support for domain terminology across 43 languages.

Microsoft AI launches a lower-cost, latency-optimized Flash variant of MAI-Image-2.5.

Microsoft AI launches MAI-Image-2.5 for high-fidelity text-to-image generation and controllable image editing.

Microsoft AI launches MAI-Code-1-Flash, an efficient agentic coding model integrated into GitHub Copilot and VS Code.

Microsoft AI launches MAI-Thinking-1, its flagship in-house reasoning model for complex instructions, mathematics and coding.

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.

OpenAI and Microsoft announce the next phase of their partnership with amended commercial terms.

Microsoft makes MAI-Voice-1 available to developers in Microsoft Foundry with custom-voice support and safety controls.

Microsoft AI launches MAI-Image-2 for faster, higher-quality image generation in Copilot and Microsoft Foundry.

Microsoft AI launches MAI-Transcribe-1 for high-speed multilingual speech-to-text through Microsoft Foundry.

Microsoft and NVIDIA expand integration across Foundry agents, Azure AI infrastructure, NVIDIA accelerators and physical-AI workflows.

Microsoft Research releases Phi-4 Reasoning Vision, a 15-billion-parameter open-weight multimodal reasoning model.

Microsoft and Anthropic expand their partnership, bringing Claude models to Microsoft Foundry and Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Microsoft AI announces MAI-Image-1, its first image-generation model developed entirely in-house.

Microsoft introduces the open-source Microsoft Agent Framework, unifying agent-development concepts from Semantic Kernel and AutoGen.

Microsoft AI releases MAI-Voice-1, its first in-house expressive speech-generation model, through Copilot experiences.

Microsoft AI begins public testing of MAI-1 Preview, its first end-to-end internally trained foundation model.

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

Microsoft releases Phi-4 Mini Flash Reasoning for fast reasoning on edge, mobile and real-time systems.

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

Microsoft launches NLWeb, an open MCP-compatible project for adding conversational and agent-accessible interfaces to websites.

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 releases Phi-4 Mini Reasoning for efficient step-by-step mathematical reasoning on constrained hardware.

Microsoft releases Phi-4 Reasoning Plus, adding reinforcement learning for stronger and longer reasoning traces.

Microsoft releases Phi-4 Reasoning, a 14-billion-parameter model trained for complex multistep math, science and coding tasks.

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 releases Phi-4 Multimodal, a 5.6-billion-parameter model jointly processing speech, vision and text.

Microsoft releases Phi-4 Mini, a compact long-context language model with multilingual and function-calling capabilities.