Microsoft Build 2025: What to expect from Copilot, Windows 11 and AI agents

While the institution mightiness beryllium pulling backmost immoderate of its investments successful the infrastructure that makes it run, Microsoft remains, astatine slightest publicly, intensely focused connected AI and Copilot. The company's yearly Microsoft Build developer league runs from May 19 to 22 and typically touches connected each of the company's assorted platforms, but it seems similar AI volition erstwhile again beryllium the star.

Microsoft Build is typically a beauteous adust matter — Azure comes up a batch — but successful the past fewer years the institution has besides utilized the league to present caller AI features that yet marque their mode into user products. Since Microsoft precocious released a caller Surface Pro and Surface Laptop, too, the lawsuit should beryllium each astir software.

You'll beryllium capable to ticker the opening Build Keynote hosted by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and CTO Kevin Scott connected the Build website, oregon if you privation the highlights arsenic they happen, travel on with Engadget's liveblog. In the meantime, we tin marque immoderate educated guesses arsenic to what Microsoft mightiness interaction on.

Adding much AI to Windows 11

Microsoft talked up agents — AI that tin instrumentality enactment connected your behalf — a batch astatine Microsoft Build 2024, and the ways AI is automating enactment successful Windows volition apt travel up this year, too. Microsoft has announced plans to present an cause into the Settings app that tin marque adjustments to your machine for you. An in-depth look astatine the diagnostic oregon a tease of different agents coming to Windows 11 seems similar evident taxable for the keynote to interaction on. The institution volition apt get successful to however third-party developers tin physique agents into their ain apps, too.

Microsoft has besides shared that its making changes to File Explorer to fto you find and tweak files without jumping into different app, and upgrading the commencement paper truthful you tin find and download apps without having to unfastened the Microsoft Store. Both features could beryllium highlighted astatine Build.

Letting Copilot spot your desktop

One of the astir awesome features Microsoft has demoed for Copilot is the quality for the AI adjunct to selectively spot what you're doing and speech to you astir it. Copilot Vision, arsenic the diagnostic is called, is already available connected mobile, and Microsoft has teased an expanded mentation of the diagnostic that tin spot your desktop oregon prime app windows. Windows Insiders tin already usage Copilot Vision, but Microsoft hasn't shared erstwhile it'll travel to mean users. Detailing the diagnostic in-depth and expanding wherever it works seems similar a earthy things that could travel up during Build.

Microsoft introduced a caller "Researcher" tool to Copilot successful March 2025 that uses OpenAI's o3 reasoning model, but constricted the diagnostic to Microsoft 365 subscribers. The instrumentality tin execute probe connected your behalf, compiling accusation from aggregate sources, similar information from your OneDrive and web searches. Microsoft didn't denote plans to bring Researcher to the escaped mentation of Copilot successful Windows, but it could bash that astatine Build 2025.

Everything else

Microsoft maintains aggregate platforms that enactment arsenic the backbone of the world's different gigantic businesses. AI is much absorbing to the mean person, but the institution volition apt person much to stock connected Azure, .NET and GitHub astatine Build 2025, too.