Microsoft is taking the next step in its journey to put Windows back at the center of computing. Windows AI Foundry, announced at the company’s Build developer conference Monday morning, is a new framework to help developers fine-tune and run AI models directly on PCs.

Microsoft integrates the Model Context Protocol into Windows 11, paving the way for secure, AI-driven agents to interact with apps and system tools.

Developers can now look under the hood at the component that allows a Linux environment to run within Windows.

Microsoft's Build conference showcased a strong AI push, featuring GitHub Copilot's evolution into an autonomous coding agent and the Windows AI Found

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The announcement was made at Microsoft’s Build developer conference on Monday, and was notable given Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI. Musk founded xAI, the startup behind Grok, but he has also been locked in a feud with OpenAI since stepping down from its board in the late 2010s, citing disagreements over its leadership direction.

At its Build 2025 conference, Microsoft open-sourced a number of apps and tools, including a new command-line text editor for Windows called Edit.

Microsoft is making its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) open-source today, opening up the code for community members to contribute to. After launching WSL for Windows 10 nearly nine years ago, it has been a multiyear effort at Microsoft to open-source the feature that enables a Linux environment within Windows.