Microsoft Build live updates: CEO Satya Nadella announces Copilot and other AI news at annual developer conference

Team Copilot goes beyond the individual user to help with project management.

It's a "valuable member of the team," and gets added to your chats and meetings — such as a "meeting facilitator" to keep conversations productive. It can tell the team in a meeting when it's time to move on to the next topic, and takes notes that anyone can add to.

Team Copilot keeps up-to-date information, including timely items or open issues that need to be addressed.

"The entire team will be more productive and collaborative," the video about Team Copilot says.

These features will be available to customers in preview later this year.

We're now hearing from Lumen, a company using Copilot for Microsoft 365 to help their sales staff. What normally takes hours can now take minutes, Lumen says. They've seen an increase in outbound calls by 40%.

Rajesh Jha, executive vice president of Microsoft's Experiences + Devices Group, takes the stage to talk more about Copilot.

He says that "nearly 60%" of Fortune 500 companies now use Copilot.

Microsoft has added more than 150 Copilot capabilities since the start of this year, he adds.

Microsoft's Team Copilot works in Microsoft's Teams workspace.

It can be your meeting facilitator when you're in Teams, creating agendas, tracking time, taking notes for you, Nadella says — it can even be your project manager.

He also talks about updates coming to Copilot Studio, where you can design your own Copilot AI agent and test it before you deploy it. You can then use the AI agent across multiple channels.

Nadella announces GitHub Copilot and its extensions.

We're seeing a live demo where GitHub Copilot is asked in Spanish to build Java code.

GitHub Copiot is good at "keeping you in your flow across your entire day."

The GitHub Copilot Azure extension makes it possible to diagnose issues as you code and plan to implement changes.

We're also seeing the AI tool help come up with a development plan, and then getting its help in implementing the code for a developer.

Coders have long dreamed of "staying in the flow," Nadella says.

Microsoft Fabric is the company's AI data analytics platform.

More than 11,000 organizations use it, Nadella says.

With the newly announced real-time intelligence capabilities coming to Fabric, customers can enjoy "instant actionable insights on streaming data."

Khan Academy will use Microsoft's Phi-3, a family of small language models (SLMs), to make math tutoring more accessible; Khan Academy is making its AI assistant Khanmigo free to all US teachers.

In a clip, Khan Academy CEO Sal Khan says he expects the partnership to have a "dramatic impact on US education."

Nadella on stage says he's very excited to see the impact of the Khan Academy partnership.

In the video, a man holds up a shoe to his computer and asks the Copilot AI agent if they're fit for a camping/hiking trip.

Copilot responds, and then the man tells the AI agent to identify the best shoe for the trip and add it to his cart. The man speaks Spanish for the next question and the AI agent responds in Spanish.

"With Azure AI, we offer the broadest selection of frontier and open source models including LLMs and SLMs," Nadella says.

He mentions how GPT-4o is integrated into Azure AI already.

What OpenAI demoed last week, "that was pretty magical stuff," Nadella says.

OpenAI is Microsoft's "most strategic and most important partnership," Nadella says.

Copilot will also leverage GPT-4o, Nadella adds.

You can share your screen with Copilot, and have it help with whatever you're working on.

We're seeing a demo of someone playing "Minecraft" and talking to Copilot, which can see what's on the screen, to help the gamer craft and survive. It offers timely suggestions, like seeing shelter "now."

After the demo clip ends, Nadella announces that GPT-4o is now "generally available" on Azure AI.

Microsoft has "the most comprehensive world infrastructure" for AI, Nadella says.

"We're on track to have our data centers powered 100% by renewable energy by 2025," Nadella says.

The number of countries where its cloud-computing Azure AI services are available has quadrupled, he adds.

Microsoft will be among the first cloud providers to offer Nvidia's latest Blackwell AI chips, he said. The company has a "deep partnership with Nvidia," Nadella says.

Nadella talks up the Copilot Library, with ready to use local APIs.

There are 40+ on-device models to use "out of the box," he adds.

He also shows a sizzle reel about Copilot+ PCs and the AI apps that are tightly integrated in the computers.

Nadella mentions some developer interactions over the past year that stuck out to him, and how the AI apps people are making are making an impact.

Nadella thanks those who "bringing the impact" of AI to the rest of the world.

He's talking about key moments in Microsoft's history.

"It feels like we're yet again, at a moment like that," he says.

AI is reshaping "every layer of the tech stack," Nadella adds.

Microsoft has two real dreams, Nadella says: Can computers understand us instead of us having to understand computers? And, in a world of ever-increasing information, can computers help us reason, plan, and act more effectively on that information?

He says there are "real breakthroughs" on both fronts.

We're seeing a video about the "new era" of technology to kick things off. There's a snapshot of OpenAI's text-to-video image generator, Sora, in the video.

"Looking forward to #MSBuild today, where we'll share how we're creating new opportunity for developers across every layer of the Copilot stack. Please join us," the Microsoft CEO posted to X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday morning ahead of the keynote.

While plenty of developers and press will be in attendance, Microsoft has also made a livestream of the opening keynote available for those who prefer to watch and listen in real time.

But we'll be covering the highlights here too.