22 Microsoft to ‘help every developer build apps and agents that empower people and organisations everywhere’ At Microsoft Build, which took place in Seattle, USA, from 19-22 May 2025, Microsoft unveiled an array of new tools and features designed to help developers build AI agents and contribute to the open agentic web. An asynchronous coding agent has been integrated into GitHub so developers can experiment with models from Grok, Hugging Face, Meta and Mistral without leaving the platform. The agent can help to fix bugs, build new features or manage ongoing code maintenance, all autonomously. Additionally, Windows AI Foundry offers a unified and reliable platform to support AI developers through training and inference. Developers can manage and run open-source large language models via Foundry Local or bring a proprietary model to convert and deploy across client and cloud. General availability of Azure AI Foundry Agent Service means developers have access to multiple specialised agents to handle complex tasks, while new features in Azure AI Foundry Observability provide an overview of metrics for performance, quality, cost and safety. Plus, developers can now choose from more than 1,900 partnerhosted and Microsoft-hosted AI models to securely manage data, model customisation and governance. Microsoft Build 2025 was opened by Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft MARKETWATCH: MICROSOFT BUILD A new layer of the internet where AI agents – built on large language models, reasoning engines and integrated APIs – act on behalf of users with greater autonomy and less direct supervision to proactively plan, decide and act. “The open agentic web is reshaping every layer of the stack, and our goal is simple: help every developer build applications and agents that empower people and organisations everywhere,” said Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, which has launched NLWeb – a new way for websites to talk directly with AI – on GitHub. Define: agentic web [uh-JEN-tik] noun
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