Microsoft unveils Discovery platform, over 50 other AI products

Microsoft announced Microsoft Discovery, a platform that taps agentic artificial intelligence (AI) to "transform the discovery process," at its Build 2025 conference on Monday.

Microsoft Discovery is "extensible" and can handle certain science-related workloads "end-to-end," according to the company.

"Microsoft Discovery is an enterprise agentic platform that helps accelerate research and discovery by transforming the entire discovery process with agentic AI – from scientific knowledge reasoning to hypothesis formulation, candidate generation and simulation and analysis," Microsoft said in a press release.

"The platform enables scientists and researchers to collaborate with a team of specialized AI agents to help drive scientific outcomes with speed, scale and accuracy using the latest innovations in AI and supercomputing," it added.

At the conference, Microsoft also unveiled over 50 other AI tools and platforms across its entire product line, including GitHub, Azure, Windows and Microsoft 365.

"We have entered the era of AI agents," Microsoft's Chief Communications Officer Frank Shaw stated in a blog. "Thanks to groundbreaking advancements in reasoning and memory, AI models are now more powerful and efficient, and we are witnessing how AI systems can help us solve problems in entirely new ways."