Agent Platform Scorecard
Who is building the agent operating system?
Twelve dimensions across seven providers. Re-graded as announcements land, with the market's reaction shown alongside.
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Microsoft · On-Device AI
Privacy and latency · updated 2026-06-01
Copilot+ PCs with NPUs and Phi Silica give a real, if Windows-bound, on-device path.
Field average: 4.9Dimension leader: Apple (9)
What this measures
How much capability runs locally, for privacy, latency, offline use, and cost? Hardware, quantized models, and the OS-level plumbing that keeps sensitive context off the server.
Across the web
- 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.
- 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.
On-Device AI across the field