Timeline
Azure AI revenue grew 20% quarter-over-quarter in Q4 2025
Released Fara1.5-27B open-source vision-only web browsing agent on Hugging Face
Off-balance-sheet debt tied to AI infrastructure leases reaches $1.65 trillion across five tech giants, an eightfold increase in four years.
Microsoft will deploy AMD Helios rack-scale AI accelerator at scale on Azure.
Microsoft merged AutoGen and Semantic Kernel into Agent Framework, a unified production-grade framework for .NET and Python
Released ResearchStudio-Reel, a PDF-to-content conversion tool
Released significant update for JetBrains IDEs with Codex agent, MCP management, and approval controls
Released Spec Kit, an open-source toolkit for specification-first AI coding workflows.
GitHub launches Spec-Kit, an open-source toolkit for generating technical specifications from natural language.
GitHub Secret Scanning MCP Server reached GA
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Microsoft Open-Sources VALL-E 2: A Zero-Shot TTS Model Achieving Human Parity in Speech Naturalness
Mar 30, 20263 Documentation MCP Servers to Install Now: GitMCP, Microsoft Learn, and Grounded Docs
Mar 25, 2026GitHub Secret Scanning Now Supports MCP Server in GA
May 12, 2026MCP Hits 10K Servers, 97M Monthly SDK Downloads by May 2026
Jun 18, 2026GitHub Copilot App Revealed via Leaked Screenshot
Jun 2, 2026Microsoft Launches Free 'AI Agent Course' for Developers, Covers Design Patterns to Production
Mar 31, 2026Microsoft's Open-Source AI Degree: Democratizing Machine Learning Education
Mar 3, 2026