Microsoft debuts an expansion of its model families and agentic AI intelligence for developers
Microsoft Corp. announced an expansion to its artificial intelligence models and agentic AI infrastructure today that brings more data and context into the hands of developers and business users as they deploy.
During the company’s Microsoft Build annual developer conference in San Francisco, the company made Microsoft IQ generally available. It is the company’s unified intelligence layer designed to make AI agents and Microsoft Copilot context-aware and personalized to organizations. It goes beyond being a generic chatbot by connecting foundation models to a company’s deep data and business logic to reduce hallucinations.
Microsoft IQ includes Work IQ, an intelligence layer for agents that captures how users work within Microsoft 365 by picking up organizational systems and external sources, such as people, emails, documents and meetings, and how they relate to one another. Work IQ application programming interfaces will become available on June 16 to provide agents direct access to data. Fabric IQ, hosted on Microsoft Fabric, provides a semantic data foundation acting as “ontology” to organize structured business data, and Foundry IQ ties everything together by retrieving information from unstructured documents such as wikis, policies, contracts and the live web.
