01 What happened
At Build 2026 on October 16, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and AI head Mustafa Suleyman presented seven new MAI models, the Majorana 2 quantum processor, and several updates targeting agentic AI.
02 Key details
- Microsoft launched seven new MAI models at Build 2026, as announced by Mustafa Suleyman.
- Azure Cobalt 200 Arm-based VMs are now in preview, delivering a 50% performance improvement and optimized for agentic AI workloads.
- Foundry IQ outperforms agentic RAG benchmarks with up to 20% better answers, per Microsoft.
- Microsoft Scout is introduced as an always-on personal agent; Microsoft Discovery reaches general availability with an app preview.
- Microsoft unveiled Majorana 2, a scalable quantum processor with reliable, long-lasting qubits.
03 Why it matters
The updates give developers and enterprises new models, better infrastructure, improved retrieval, a new tuning method (Frontier Tuning), and a glimpse of practical quantum computing.
04 Who it matters to
AI agent developers and engineering teams.
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