Microsoft Unveils AI-Powered Discovery Platform at Build 2025

Microsoft has unveiled the Microsoft Discovery platform at the Build 2025 conference, leveraging AI agents to revolutionize the scientific discovery process. The platform is designed to be scalable, capable of handling scientific tasks from start to finish, and aims to accelerate research through artificial intelligence. According to the announcement, the platform enables scientists and researchers to collaborate with specialized AI agents to deliver scientific results with speed, scale, and accuracy, utilizing the latest innovations in AI and supercomputing.

The company highlights the importance of creating a unified platform where AI can span both scientific disciplines and the cognitive processes involved in managing scientific thinking. To achieve this, AI agents must be able to reason based on a complex and contextual graph that integrates all knowledge sources, specialize in different fields and tasks, and learn from the results to adapt the entire research strategy accordingly.

Built on Microsoft Azure, the Discovery platform has partnered with various customers for collaborative innovation in areas such as energy, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, and chemistry. This initiative underscores Microsoft's commitment to integrating AI into scientific research, aiming to transform the way discoveries are made and accelerate the pace of innovation.