Microsoft’s annual developer convention kicks off immediately in Seattle, Washington, throughout the identical week Google hosts its personal I/O developer occasion in Mountain View, California. Construct will likely be centered on Microsoft’s world platform adjustments for builders, together with new AI bulletins which are certain to go head-to-head with Google’s personal information.
Microsoft is streaming Construct on-line freed from cost and builders, college students, and engineers may also have the ability to attend the in-person occasion at Seattle’s convention heart. I’m anticipating Microsoft to focus largely on AI this 12 months, with emphasis on its push for AI agents that Microsoft envisions working alongside people as digital colleagues.
We might also get some information on Microsoft’s plans to host Elon Musk’s Grok AI mannequin. I revealed in my Notepad newsletter earlier this month that Microsoft is in discussions with xAI to host the Grok AI mannequin on its Azure AI Foundry service, with a possible announcement at Construct this week.
Maybe we’ll additionally see OpenAI CEO Sam Altman seem at Construct, just like he did last year. In Notepad earlier this 12 months I revealed that OpenAI had been planning to launch its GPT-5 model in late May, however sources conversant in OpenAI’s plans inform me that’s much less probably now attributable to service adjustments and up to date delays affecting the launch of different fashions. Altman and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella are all the time eager to point out that the partnership between the 2 corporations stays robust — amid media studies of tensions — with the pair posing for a selfie earlier this month.
Nadella will kick off all of Microsoft’s AI bulletins at 9AM PT / 12PM ET on Might nineteenth, adopted by a day two technical keynote hosted by Jay Parikh, Charles Lamanna, and Scott Guthrie.
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The keynote for Microsoft Construct 2025 will begin at 9AM PT / 12PM ET on Might nineteenth.
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