Microsoft is so keen to help you deploy AI agents, it's building its own version of OpenClaw — and a new agentic OS based on Android rather than Windows. CEO Satya Nadella doubled down on AI agents and tools during his keynote at the company's annual Microsoft Build conference for developers on Tuesday. That included a first look at Project Soltera, an Android-based software platform which Microsoft calls "a chip-to-cloud platform designed for an open, multiple agent world that expands how agents are built, deployed and experienced." You can watch the Microsoft Build 2026 keynote for yourself, or we can give you the highlights. The MAI family of models Nadella unveiled Microsoft's first reasoning AI model, the first in a new suite of MAI models . This is the tech giant attempting to reduce its reliance on models from its longtime partner OpenAI. In fact, this Build has been described by some observers as Microsoft's AI independence day . MAI-Thinking-...
