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Microsoft Build 2026: The 7 biggest announcements
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TL;DR
- The Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is a new developer device for local AI model execution, featuring an Arm-based Spark RTX chip and 128GB of unified memory.
- Windows 11 is receiving developer-friendly updates, including Coreutils (Linux-like command-line utilities), enhanced Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) for containers, and a new Intelligent Terminal with AI agent integration.
- Project Solara, an Android-based OS, aims to run AI agents across various devices, potentially acting as a PC companion or enabling task handoffs.
- Scout is a new always-on assistant built on OpenClaw, designed to perform background tasks within Microsoft 365 apps for businesses.
- Microsoft introduced MAI-Thinking-1, its first reasoning AI model, boasting 35 billion active parameters and a 128K context window for complex tasks.
- Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC) are introduced to provide guardrails for AI agents running on devices, alongside an OpenClaw companion app for managing agents in a sandboxed environment.
- The Majorana 2, Microsoft's next-gen quantum computing chip, features qubits that are 1,000 times more accurate, potentially accelerating the path to a practical quantum computer by 2029.