Microsoft’s AI Vision: An Open Internet Made for Agents

by Dan Shipper in Chain of Thought

Today we’re releasing a special episode of our podcast AI & I. Dan Shipper sat down with with Kevin Scott, Microsoft's CTO, at the Microsoft Build conference. Watch on X or YouTube, or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Here's a link to the episode transcript.

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I spent the day yesterday at Club Microsoft (aka Microsoft’s yearly developer conference, Build): a packed purple-lit rave, filled with event staff waving glow sticks like air traffic controllers, playing music so loud I could feel my chest cavity vibrating to a four-on-the-floor remix of Neil Diamond’s “Harvest Moon.”

Halfway through the set, CEO Satya Nadella stepped onto the keynote stage and shipped a live commit with GitHub Copilot Agent. Later, Kevin Scott, Microsoft CTO, laid out a manifesto for the “agentic web”: an open internet with agents talking to agents the way browsers talk to servers.

Here’s the thing about Club Microsoft: It’s the busiest club in AI, millions of users deep, but nobody in the hype cycle brags about going. It’s also quietly the center of the whole ecosystem: The company owns a sizable chunk of OpenAI and has its plumbing wired into hundreds of millions of consumer desktops and enterprise customers.

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