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Super excited about GPT-5.2 from our partners at OpenAI. Making it natively part of the Microsoft tools people use every day along with your work data helps all the new model capabilities shine.
The pace of progress continues to accelerate. GPT‑5.2 brings together GPT-5.2 Thinking—built for solving harder problems, long-context reasoning, coding, spreadsheets, and presentations; and GPT-5.2 Instant—an efficient model for everyday writing, translation, and skill-building.
• GPT-5.2 with Work IQ is great for unlocking insights, market research, and strategic planning —reasoning across your meetings, emails, and docs. Starting today, you can select GPT-5.2 in the model picker in M365 Copilot.
• In GitHub Copilot, GPT-5.2 is a fantastic multi-purpose model, especially when it comes to long-context and reasoning when coding or investigating a complex code base. Also available today.
• We’re also bringing GPT-5.2 models to Microsoft Foundry and Copilot Studio, and starting rollout in our Copilot consumer experience.
Ultimately, for us this is all about model choice for all of our customers and with auto, you can rely on Copilot to pick the right model for the job at hand. I’m looking forward to what customers are able to achieve with this new capability.
It was fun to spend time with the team at Swiggy today, and see how they're using Microsoft Fabric to process billions of data points in near real time, paving the way for new innovations in how convenience is delivered to millions of their users. A really great use case! https://lnkd.in/gWFG4qrn
In December’s edition of The Monthly Tech In, we explore the worlds where imagination and technology meet. From a modern reimagining of Final Fantasy VII to new creative pipelines powering studios around the globe, this issue looks at how gaming continues to push the boundaries of storytelling and innovation.
You’ll also meet the developers, creators and everyday builders using AI to change how we code, learn and work. Dive into the people and breakthroughs shaping the next era of play and productivity.
With the Excel World Championship underway, I decided to take the M365 Copilot digital challenge. I’m no World Champ… but thanks to Agent Mode, I held my own!
We're more than a single story. At Microsoft, our diverse talents, passions, and perspectives fuel innovation and empathy. Every challenge deepens our understanding and drives us to create solutions that work for everyone. Accessibility is at our core, defining every move we make to shape tomorrow. ❤️ https://msft.it/6009tbn51
AI has moved fast. At Microsoft Ignite, it became clear how far AI has come. This edition of The Monthly Tech-In pulls back the curtain on what's coming next, from new intelligence layers powering AI agents to the creators pushing the future forward at AFROTECH.
Microsoft Ignite is in San Francisco right now, bringing 20,000 people to our city and generating an estimated $68 million in economic impact and 68,000 hotel room nights. Today, Judson Althoff and I announced that this flagship tech conference is coming back to San Francisco in 2026!
By establishing San Francisco as their home, Microsoft is reaffirming what we already know: our city is a global hub of innovation. Ignite’s return adds to a strong year ahead for Moscone Center, which will host 36 major events in 2026—outpacing 2025 and continuing the momentum we’re building across the city.
I was so pleased to be joined by customers and partners around the world for Microsoft Ignite with 20,000 attendees joining in San Francisco and 200,000 online. It is an exciting time as we shift from an era of AI Transformation to Frontier Transformation: a holistic reimagining of your business, aligning AI with human ambition to achieve your organization's highest aspirations and potential. By democratizing intelligence—empowered by Copilots and agents—we will help them obsolesce the mundane, unlock creativity, and drive even greater innovation.
As our customers realize success, we have identified three common themes below with new product announcements aimed at empowering the Frontier Firm:
1. AI in the flow of human ambition. AI needs to be seamlessly accessible in the tools and solutions people use every day and tied to the key business metrics they use to determine ROI. Work IQ amplifies an individual’s IQ—it is the intelligence layer that enables Microsoft 365 Copilot and agents to know how you work, with whom you work, and the content you collaborate on.
2. Ubiquitous innovation. There is a maker in every one of us. The person closest to the challenge is often the best to solve it. Empowering employees with the ability to create AI artifacts in the flow of work and coupling citizen development with IT and professional developers through robust collaboration enables innovation at pace.
▪️ Foundry IQ is the intelligent connection point between all structured and unstructured knowledge and models that agents need. It is the first large scale implementation of context engineering pulling from multiple sources through a single API.
▪️ Fabric IQ is the semantic layer that agents and apps use to reason with enterprise context across your entire data estate, turning unified data into unified intelligence for decisions. If you are already using Power BI, all pre-existing data modeling will act as an immediate accelerant, giving your agents the unique context that defines how your business runs.
▪️ Microsoft Agent Factory harnesses the power of Work IQ, Foundry IQ, and Fabric IQ through a single metered plan, measuring ROI for AI before you start building agents. You can leverage our forward-deployed engineers, our partners, and our skilling assets to build and deliver agents.
3. Observability at every layer of the stack. You need to see all AI artifacts and how they are being used in real workflows. Microsoft Agent 365 enables you to observe, manage, and secure your AI agents whether they are created with Microsoft platforms, open-source frameworks, or third-party platforms.
Underpinning these three traits are the fundamental Frontier building blocks of Intelligence + Trust. Enabled by Microsoft’s model diverse, open, and heterogenous platforms, we can bring together your organization’s IQ and help you achieve your highest aspirations in the pursuit of Frontier Transformation.
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