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Microsoft unveils Project Polaris at Build 2026 — its own model replaces OpenAI inside GitHub Copilot starting August
At Microsoft Build 2026 on June 2, Satya Nadella unveiled Project Polaris — Microsoft's in-house mixture-of-experts coding model that will replace GPT-4 Turbo as the default engine for all GitHub Copilot subscribers starting August 2026. The transition is automatic with an optional three-month fallback. Polaris outperforms GPT-4 Turbo on HumanEval and MBPP — especially on low-resource languages like Rust and Haskell. Microsoft's deepest decoupling from OpenAI to date.
Read story →Anthropic in early talks with Microsoft to run Claude inference on Maia 200 chips — first frontier validation of Microsoft custom silicon
Anthropic is in early-stage discussions with Microsoft to run Claude inference workloads on Microsoft's custom Maia 200 AI accelerators via Azure — a deal that would make Claude the first frontier model to validate Microsoft custom silicon externally. Maia 200 launched January 2026 on TSMC 3nm, 216GB HBM3e, 10+ petaflops FP4. The talks follow the April 27 Microsoft-OpenAI exclusivity restructuring and add a fourth custom-silicon option to Anthropic's compute supply chain alongside NVIDIA, AWS Trainium, and Google TPU.
Read story →Microsoft Agent 365 hits GA: $15/user/month for the agent control plane
Microsoft launched Agent 365 to general availability on May 1, 2026 — a dedicated governance and security control plane for enterprise AI agents. Standalone at $15/user/month, or bundled into the new Microsoft 365 E7 suite at $99/user/month with Copilot, Entra Suite, and Defender. The 'observe, govern, secure' framing is Microsoft betting that 2026 enterprise AI is about agent fleet management, not chatbots.
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