Microsoft\u2019s annual developer conference kicks off today in Seattle, Washington, during the same week Google hosts its own I\/O developer event in Mountain View, California. Build will be focused on Microsoft\u2019s latest platform changes for developers, including new AI announcements that are bound to go head-to-head with Google\u2019s own news.<\/p>\n
Microsoft is streaming Build online free of charge and developers, students, and engineers will also be able to attend the in-person event at Seattle\u2019s conference center. I\u2019m expecting Microsoft to focus largely on AI this year, with emphasis on its push for AI agents<\/a> that Microsoft envisions working alongside humans as digital colleagues.<\/p>\n We may also get some news on Microsoft\u2019s plans to host Elon Musk\u2019s Grok AI model. I revealed in my Notepad newsletter<\/a> earlier this month that Microsoft is in discussions with xAI to host the Grok AI model on its Azure AI Foundry service, with a potential announcement at Build this week.<\/p>\n Perhaps we\u2019ll also see OpenAI CEO Sam Altman appear at Build, just like he did last year<\/a>. In Notepad earlier this year I revealed that OpenAI had been planning to launch its GPT-5 model in late May<\/a>, but sources familiar with OpenAI\u2019s plans tell me that\u2019s less likely now due to service changes and recent delays affecting the launch of other models. Altman and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella are always keen to show that the partnership between the two companies remains strong \u2014 amid media reports of tensions \u2014 with the pair posing for a selfie<\/a> earlier this month.<\/p>\n Nadella will kick off all of Microsoft\u2019s AI announcements at 9AM PT \/ 12PM ET on May 19th, followed by a day two technical keynote hosted by Jay Parikh, Charles Lamanna, and Scott Guthrie.<\/p>\n How to watch Microsoft Build 2025 Keynote and Sessions<\/p>\n The keynote for Microsoft Build 2025 will start at 9AM PT \/ 12PM ET on May 19th.<\/p>\n Stay tuned to The Verge for all the news coming out of the conference!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s annual developer conference kicks off today in Seattle, Washington, during the same week Google hosts its own…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,1942,507,45128,12,326,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-114322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-microsoft","11":"tag-microsoft-build","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tech","14":"tag-technology","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114534505682346963","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}