Who is building the agent operating system?
Twelve dimensions across seven providers. Re-graded as announcements land, with the market's reaction shown alongside.
Microsoft · Assistant Intelligence
Raw capability · updated 2026-06-01
Copilot rides frontier intelligence (OpenAI plus in-house MAI/Phi) into everyday work.
How smart is the assistant at the core reasoning, knowledge, and generation tasks people actually throw at it? Frontier benchmark standing, but weighted toward real assistant quality rather than leaderboard maxing.
No outside coverage tagged to this exact cell yet. Here is recent Microsoft analysis.
- PrimaryBuilding a hill-climbing machine: Launching seven new MAI modelsMicrosoft AI · 2026-06-02
Microsoft's own in-house MAI models, including a reasoning model, signaling a push toward independence from OpenAI.
- PrimaryBuild and run agents at scale with Microsoft Foundry (Build 2026)Microsoft Foundry · 2026-06-02
A framework-agnostic agent platform with enterprise tools, real-time voice, and production observability.
- AnalysisMicrosoft is building an AI empire without OpenAIThe Next Web · 2026-04-03
Microsoft's proprietary MAI models as evidence the 2025 contract renegotiation freed it to compete head-on with OpenAI.
- AnalysisMicrosoft and Software SurvivalStratechery · 2026-02-03
Microsoft's choice to prioritize its own AI products over reselling cloud capacity may be the right long-term bet.
- AnalysisThe Agentic Enterprise Arrives: Microsoft's Copilot and Agent Breakthroughs of 2025Cloud Wars · 2025-12-22
A year-end case that Microsoft's 2025 agent and Copilot work positions it to lead enterprise agentic AI.