Microsoft CTO says the number of people using AI agents doubled in the last year

It was all about agentic AI at Microsoft's big developer event on Monday. "The thing that we've seen over the past year is just sort of an explosion of agents," Microsoft CTO and executive vice president of AI, Kevin Scott, said during the company's Build conference.Scott added that the number of daily active users of the various AI agents that Microsoft has visibility into "more than doubled" since Microsoft's Build event last year. CEOs and executives across the tech industry have heralded 2025 as the y ...