Microsoft rolled out AI agents that remember your every move

In order to enhance the experience of users, Microsoft has described its vision for a future in which artificial intelligence (AI) agents can easily collaborate with various businesses. It can exchange data and remember the previous exchanges.

On May 19, Kevin Scott, Microsoft Chief Technology Officer, talked before the company’s annual Build conference in Seattle. Scott emphasized the attempts to advance industry-wide standards that facilitate interoperability among AI agents, which are software systems created to carry out particular tasks, like debugging software, on their own.

Scott disclosed that Anthropic, an AI research company supported by Google, launched the open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP), which Microsoft is now supporting. By enabling AI agents from many sources to cooperate and exchange context, MCP seeks to establish an “agentic web,” similar to how hypertext protocols helped the internet take off in the 1990s.

Scott said during his address at Microsoft’s Redmond headquarters:

“This means your imagination drives what the agentic web becomes, not just a handful of companies that happen to see some of these problems first,”

For the time being, Microsoft is working on upgrading the memory capabilities of AI agents as well as promoting collaboration amongst them. Many AI systems now function transactionally, handling the interaction of each user separately and unsuccessfully remembering previous context.

Nevertheless, there are considerable technical expenses that are connected to improving AI memory. Microsoft is investigating a method known as structured retrieval augmentation to address this. By using this method, an AI agent can efficiently create a “roadmap” of previous interactions by capturing succinct summaries of conversational turns.

By avoiding the need to reprocess all information from scratch while tackling new issues, Scott compared this approach to how biological brains train themselves.

With these developments, Microsoft hopes to create AI systems that can offer more individualized and contextually aware support, potentially transforming the way people use digital tools in a variety of industries.