Microsoft just gave its AI agents a memory upgrade. At its Build 2026 conference on June 2 in San Francisco, the company introduced Microsoft IQ, a new intelligence layer designed to give enterprise AI agents deep access to company data, business processes, and live web information.
The platform bundles four distinct context engines, a new agent hosting service, and fresh AI models under one roof. It is now generally available for GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Foundry, and Copilot Studio.
Four flavors of intelligence
Microsoft IQ is not a single product so much as a stack of interconnected data layers, each feeding AI agents a different type of context.
Work IQ pulls signals from Microsoft 365, the productivity suite that already lives inside most large organizations. Calendar patterns, document activity, communication flows: all of it becomes grist for agent reasoning. The Work IQ APIs are expected to launch on June 16, 2026.
