Microsoft Unveils the Open Agentic Web — A New Internet Powered by AI Agents

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Good morning, agent wranglers — Microsoft just went full multiverse with its Build 2025 showcase, unveiling its vision of an “agentic web” where AI agents roam free like digital familiars. Oh, and did we mention AI headphones that can spatially translate crowds?

Let’s dive in 👇

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🌐 Microsoft’s Agentic Web is Here

GitHub Copilot grows up, and the open-source party begins

Microsoft kicked off Build 2025 with a bold vision for an “open agentic web” — a world where autonomous AI agents interact across the web on your behalf.

Here’s the download:

• Copilot’s Glow-Up: GitHub Copilot is now a full-blown agent. It doesn’t just sit in your code editor; it works asynchronously and can even operate independently. Bonus: Copilot Chat in VS Code is now open source.

• Magentic-UI: Microsoft’s new open-source UI prototype for AI agents lets humans stay in control — think AI that asks before it acts.

• NLWeb Standard: Like HTML, but for agents. This project lets devs easily build agentic UIs into websites using natural language.

• Model Buffet: Azure AI Foundry now includes Grok 3 and Grok 3 Mini from xAI, expanding dev access to 1,900+ models.

• Multi-Agent Orchestration: Now agents can team up to tackle business workflows, and orgs can fine-tune Copilot with their internal data.

Why it matters: Microsoft isn’t just chasing OpenAI — it’s aiming to define the operating system of the agent-powered internet. If they get it right, agents won’t just write your emails. They’ll run your week.

🔬 Discovery Could Crush Scientific Timelines

From years to hours — Microsoft wants to be your AI lab partner

Also at Build, Microsoft revealed Discovery — an AI-powered R&D platform designed to radically speed up scientific discovery.

Here’s how it works:

• 🧪 AI “postdoc” agents help scientists generate hypotheses, simulate experiments, and interpret results — no need for deep coding skills.

• 🧊 Proof of power: Discovery uncovered a new, non-PFAS datacenter coolant in 200 hours. Normally? That takes months or years.

• 🌐 Democratizing supercomputing: You just talk to it. Discovery does the rest.

• 🏥 Who's onboard: GSK, Estée Lauder, NVIDIA, and Synopsys are all piloting Discovery across biotech, beauty, and chips.

Why it matters: Microsoft wants to collapse the distance between “what if?” and “we found it.” AI agents as lab assistants could be a leap forward — assuming the hype holds up in the real world.

🎧 Your Headphones Can Now Translate Crowds

Real-time Babel Fish for your ears

Researchers at the University of Washington just dropped a wild prototype: headphones that can translate multiple people at once — in real-time and in 3D.

Here’s what’s under the hood:

• 🎤 Uses standard noise-canceling headphones + extra mics to scan conversations around you like radar

• 🧠 AI separates different speakers, translates them individually, and plays them back in their original voice and spatial location

• 🌍 Works for Spanish, German, and French (for now) with just a 2–4 second delay

• 💻 Runs locally on Apple M2 chips — no cloud needed

Why it matters: Imagine walking through a foreign market and hearing every conversation in your language, spatially intact. This is next-level real-world translation — and a glimpse into the future of live, multilingual interaction.

🗞️ Other News You Should Know

Mini bytes from the AI universe

🧠 Grok 3.5 incoming: Elon Musk said it’ll reason from first principles and use physics-based logic to reduce hallucinations.

📱 NoteBookLM goes mobile: Google launched an Android app that turns your notes into podcasts, study guides, and more.

🔌 Nvidia goes open: At Computex 2025, Nvidia unveiled NVLink Fusion — letting rival CPUs/GPUs link into its ecosystem.

🇨🇳 China pushes back: Following new U.S. rules around Huawei chips, China demanded the U.S. “correct its wrongdoings.”

💻 Copilot gets more agentic: GitHub’s tool can now auto-fix bugs, open pull requests, and even edit files by itself.

🧬 UBS clones its analysts: The Swiss bank is creating digital twins of its financial experts using OpenAI and Synthesia.

🖼️ AI art remix: A Redditor turned a regular photo into a Renaissance painting with AI. Another asked ChatGPT to reverse it into toddler art.

📹 Still confused about OpenAI’s Codex? Solo founder Roy Hermann’s 5-minute explainer breaks it all down.

⌨️ Cursor coding tips: Meta engineer Vasuman Moza shares how to vibe code the right way.

🧸 Redditors as cartoons: People are asking ChatGPT to render them based on usernames — the results are surprisingly cute.

💻 Mastery tools of the day

• iDox: Auto-redact text, signatures, logos, and more with AI

• CreativAI - An AI writing assistant helps to create content up to 10x faster

• Durable AI: Create and manage your website for small businesses efficiently

• Cutout: Edit photos and generate high quality content with AI visual design platform

• Distro: Turn conversations into content with your AI cohost - create social posts, quotes, and drafts in your voice to grow your brand effortlessly

💡What else are we reading and seeing?

• AI voices to narrate audiobooks

• Vibe Check: Codex—OpenAI’s New Coding Agent

• Is AI-focused AEO the new SEO?

• How creators are using generative AI to shape video and design

• Vibe code pro-level UX/UI designs with this simple 2-step AI prompt system

🏁 That’s a wrap!

Thanks for reading today’s edition of Not So Artificial 🎉

If you enjoyed this, share it with a friend who still thinks AI agents are just a buzzword. And if you're feeling brave, ask ChatGPT to turn your Reddit handle into a Ghibli character.

Until tomorrow, stay curious and caffeinated ☕🤓

— Team Not So Artificial

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