Overview
- At Build 2026 on Tuesday Microsoft introduced Project Solara, an Android-based platform for devices that run persistent AI agents and showed two prototype reference devices that it expects partners to build on.
- Microsoft unveiled Scout, an always‑on assistant built on the OpenClaw framework that ties into Microsoft 365 and will roll out first in limited Frontier previews for U.S. enterprise customers.
- The company revealed seven in‑house MAI models including MAI‑Thinking‑1, a 35B‑parameter reasoning model with a 128K context window intended for long‑context reasoning and code generation.
- New developer hardware was announced, led by the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box and Surface Laptop Ultra using Nvidia’s RTX Spark chip, which Microsoft says can run large models locally to support on‑device agent workflows.
- To make agents safer for business use Microsoft introduced Microsoft Execution Containers and identity controls, and most software items will enter private previews while hardware is offered as partner reference designs.