Microsoft Debuts Agentic AI at Build 2025

Microsoft hosted its annual developer conference, Microsoft Build, on May 19, announcing a slew of updates. The latest edition of Microsoft Build saw Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella share how the tech giant is building the open agentic web, where AI agents interact, make decisions, and perform tasks for individuals, teams and companies. The company’s new updates will shape the software development lifecycle with AI, essentially making it easier to build more capable and secure AI agents, accelerate scientific discovery, and advance open standards and shared infrastructure and protocols.

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“Today, at Build, we showed you how we are building the open agentic web. It is reshaping every layer of the stack, and our goal is to help every dev build apps and agents that empower people and orgs everywhere,” Nadella said in his post on X. Here is a list of some of the biggest announcements from this year’s Microsoft Build. “We are taking GitHub Copilot from being a pair programmer to peer programmer. You now have a full coding agent built right into GitHub. You can assign it issues – whether it’s bug fixes, new features, or ongoing code maintenance. And it will complete these tasks autonomously,” said Nadella. 

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GitHub Copilot Launches AI Coding Agent to Automate Dev Tasks

Copilot has unveiled a new AI-powered coding agent that has been designed to automate regular development tasks and augment productivity, enabling developers to prioritise complex work. The agent can be assigned tasks through GitHub issues or Copilot Chat in Visual Studio Code. Once assigned, the agent begins a secure development environment using GitHub Actions, clones the repository, and analyses the codebase. Throughout this process, the agent commits changes to a draft pull request and offers session logs for transparency.

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example is this promising candidate for a coolant that doesn’t rely on forever chemicals,” said Nadella. Microsoft Discovery was one of the prominent announcements at the conference. It is a new AI-powered platform developed to transform research and development processes. Microsoft Discovery uses agentic AI to automate complex tasks, allowing scientists and engineers to speed up innovation by streamlining data analysis and experimentation. By integrating with existing tools and datasets, Discovery essentially allows for seamless collaboration and knowledge sharing across teams.