The buzzword Microsoft used at Build was the "agentic web." However, the agent-based opportunities the company described aren't limited to the web or cloud-based applications –

At its Build event, Microsoft made a range of announcements that point to the fact that software agents can take LLM capabilities into more sophisticated and farther-reaching applications.

Microsoft envisions a future where any company's artificial intelligence agents can work together with agents from other firms and have better memories of their interactions, its chief technologist said on Sunday ahead of the company's annual software developer conference.