Microsoft Build 2025

Microsoft Build 2025: CEO Nadella Takes Platform, Systems Approach To The ‘Agentic Web’

The big winners are going to be people like yourselves who are going to build applications, not just people creating platforms like us,’ Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that the artificial intelligence platform shift is “getting into the middle innings” and touted his company’s systems-based strategy of meeting every layer of the AI stack as the winning approach to democratizing the technology.

“We are taking, really, a systems approach, a platform approach–which you can expect from Microsoft–across every layer of the stack,” Nadella said during his keynote address at Microsoft Build 2025. “The big winners are going to be people like yourselves who are going to build applications, not just people creating platforms like us. The winners need to be across every sector of the economy and every part of the world. That’s our goal.”

Nadella shared the Redmond, Wash.-based cloud and AI products vendor’s accomplishments and vision during his keynote address at Microsoft’s annual developer-

Nadella shared the Redmond, Wash.-based cloud and AI products vendor’s accomplishments and vision during his keynote address at Microsoft’s annual developer-focused Build conference, which runs through Thursday in Seattle.