Tech Desk 
May 20, 2025
At Microsoft Build 2025, several innovative announcements showed how fast AI agents are becoming more useful in real-world work.
Microsoft revealed powerful tools like GitHub Copilot’s new agent and NLWeb, while OpenAI’s Operator and Computer-Using Agent were also highlighted in the conversation around autonomous agents.
These AI systems are designed to perform complex tasks by understanding natural language and learning from feedback.
Microsoft introduces smarter AI agents
One of the key announcements at Microsoft Build 2025 was the new GitHub Copilot AI agent.
Microsoft says that this tool can now perform more on its own, repairing bugs, creating features, and editing documents while commenting on each action that it performs.
It also adapts according to developer input and adheres to repository policies automatically. Microsoft also announced plans for Copilot for Visual Studio Code to become open source, giving developers around the world greater access to it.
Natural language web
Other top news was NLWeb, an open-source project anounced at the event. It provides websites with a natural language interface, so users can simply ask questions in everyday English and receive intelligent responses.
It supports structured data sources such as JSONL and Schema.org and aims to make the web more agent-friendly and interactive.
Microsoft believes that NLWeb represents a future standard for the AI agent-driven web, much like HTML revolutionised the early internet.
Although OpenAI’s Operator and Computer-Using Agent weren’t launched at Build 2025, they were widely discussed as part of the broader ecosystem.
The operator can handle complex tasks across tools, and the computer-using agent can control a computer like a human, clicking, typing, and more.
