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.

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