Microsoft launched its IQ enterprise intelligence platform at Build 2026, introducing four context layers, hosted stateful agents, and MAI AI models.

In terms of the agents you build, Bayer put up its own agent system on Foundry, and now it has 20,000 of its own employees on it.

Microsoft used Build 2026 to launch seven in-house MAI models, new Cobalt 200 silicon and the Majorana 2 quantum chip, a clear move to depend less on OpenAI.

Microsoft Build 2026 had plenty of normal launch noise: more agents, more Copilot surfaces, more model choice, more reasons to pretend your backlog is abou

Microsoft launched its IQ enterprise intelligence platform at Build 2026, introducing four context layers, hosted stateful agents, and MAI AI models.

At Build 2026 Microsoft made the Agent 365 SDK generally available and bet that governance, not model power, is what gates enterprise AI agent deployment.