Microsoft Launches Seven AI Models and Agentic Platform

Microsoft unveiled a major AI expansion at its Build developer conference, including Microsoft IQ, a unified intelligence layer connecting AI agents to organizational data. The platform includes Work IQ, Fabric IQ, Foundry IQ, and new Web IQ, which returns grounding information 2.5 times faster than competitors. The company's Superintelligence Team also released seven new in-house models, led by MAI-Thinking-1, a 35-billion-parameter reasoning model claiming to rival Anthropic's Opus 4.6 on coding tasks. Additional releases include image, transcription, voice, and coding models, plus Scout, a new always-on personal agent built for autonomous task handling.