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🌐 Microsoft Open Agentic Web Vision Unveiled at Build 2025

Microsoft logo, featured in NewBits Digest article on the Microsoft Open Agentic Web, highlighting AI agents, Copilot upgrades, and NLWeb tools.

At Build 2025, Microsoft laid out its bold roadmap for the future of the web — one built around AI agents, open collaboration, and developer freedom. The company announced major updates to GitHub Copilot, a new wave of AI tools, and foundational projects aimed at shaping how humans and AI interact online.


🔧 Key Announcements


  • GitHub Copilot Evolves: It’s no longer just an in-editor assistant — Copilot becomes an asynchronous agent that can handle tasks in the background. Copilot Chat is now open-sourced in VS Code.


  • Copilot Studio Expansion: Now supports multi-agent orchestration and enterprise tuning, letting organizations train Copilot on their own data to collaborate across business workflows.


  • Azure AI Foundry: Adds xAI’s Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini, boosting developer choice with access to 1,900+ models.


  • Magentic-UI: An open-source human-in-the-loop agent framework focused on giving users collaborative control over web-based AI agents.


  • NLWeb: A new open project aiming to be the “HTML of the agentic web,” enabling developers to embed conversational UIs directly into sites with minimal effort.


  • AI Browser Agent: A next-gen browsing companion designed to act on users' behalf across tasks — from searching to summarizing to filling forms.


💡 Why the Microsoft Open Agentic Web Strategy Signals a New AI Era


  • From Tools to Teammates: Microsoft is shifting from passive assistants to autonomous, cooperative agents — a central piece in realizing the Microsoft Open Agentic Web.


  • Democratizing Agent Tech: With open-sourcing efforts like Copilot Chat and Magentic-UI, Microsoft is pushing agent frameworks into the public domain — a significant move toward open and controllable AI.


  • Interoperability at Scale: With Azure AI Foundry now supporting Grok and 1,900+ models, Microsoft is doubling down on model-agnostic ecosystems, giving developers freedom and flexibility.


  • New Web Standards in the Making: The introduction of NLWeb could define the next-gen interface between web content and conversational AI, similar to how HTML shaped the early web.


  • The Agentic Web Gets Real: While much of the AI agent hype has yet to materialize in daily tools, Microsoft’s stack brings infrastructure, openness, and functionality closer than ever to reality.



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