Build 2025 Highlights Microsoft (MSFT)’s Push Toward a Collaborative AI Future

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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) provides AI-powered cloud, productivity, and business solutions, focusing on efficiency, security, and AI advancements. On May 19, the company kicked off its annual developer “Build” conference in Seattle, bringing together thousands of coders looking to turn AI investments into profitable products and services for consumers and businesses. Ahead of the conference, Microsoft’s Technology Officer Kevin Scott said that the company visualizes a future where artificial intelligence agents from different firms can work together and have better memories of their interactions.

Scott noted that Microsoft is backing a technology called Model Context Protocol (MCP). The MCP is an open-source protocol introduced by Google-backed Anthropic, having the ability to create an “agentic web” similar to the way hypertext protocols helped spread the internet in the 1990s.

“It means that your imagination gets to drive what the agentic web becomes, not just a handful of companies that happen to see some of these problems first.”

As reported by Reuters, Microsoft is also looking to shift its partnership with OpenAI. Having already spent $64 billion this year, largely on data centers, it is seeking to become a neutral arms dealer in the AI race.

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