Microsoft Scout

Microsoft to unveil new AI models and Windows improvements at Build

Build 2026 is a developer-trust-repair operation with a second plot running underneath it. Microsoft is assembling the full OpenAI-independence stack: its first reasoning model trained without distillation, its own image models, a new agent, and a hard push toward local inference on Windows silicon. The "no distillation" detail is the tell — Microsoft wants to prove it can train reasoning without learning from another model's outputs.