Microsoft AI Update May 2026

Major Microsoft AI updates in May 2026. 🔎 Looking for content on a particular topic? Search the channel. If I have something it will be there! 🤔 Due to the channel growth and number of people wanting help I no longer can answer or even read questions and they will just stay in the moderation queue never to be seen so please post questions to other sites like Reddit, Microsoft Community Hub etc. ▬▬▬▬▬▬ C H A P T E R S ⏰ ▬▬▬▬▬▬ 00:00 - Introduction 00:19 - New AI videos 00:47 - Models 00:50 - Claude Opus 4.8 - Foundry, Copilot Cowork and GitHub Copilot 02:10 - GPT-5.5 Instant (GPT-chat-latest) & GPT-5.5 Thinking – Microsoft Foundry and M365 Copilot Chat 02:52 - GPT-realtime-2, GPT-realtime-translate, and GPT-realtime-whisper - Foundry 03:37 - xAI Grok 4.3 - Foundry 03:57 - DeepSeek V4, V4 Pro & Kimi 2.6 - Foundry (via Fireworks) 04:45 - Cohere Command A+ and new image models - Foundry 05:17 - MAI-Image-2-Efficient — Foundry Labs 05:54 - Microsoft Foundry 05:57 - Trace-based evaluation for external & hosted agents 06:59 - GPT-5 Reinforcement Fine-Tuning - Gated GA 07:39 - Managed VNet, project cost attribution & Content Understanding - GA 08:17 - Open agentic stack from MS Research - MagenticLite, MagenticBrain, Fara 1.5 09:11 - Foundry Local 1.1 & 1.2 plus azure-ai-projects 2.2.0 SDK 10:13 - Foundry IQ 11:00 - Copilot Studio 11:03 - Computer-using agents 11:34 - New workflow experience 12:24 - M365 Copilot 12:27 - Redesign 12:59 - Implicit Outlook grounding 13:07 - PDFs in chat 13:11 - GitHub Copilot 13:14 - Opus 4.8 & Gemini 3.5 Flash GA, GPT-5.3-Codex, auto model selection 13:34 - GitHub Copilot App – Preview 13:54 - Copilot CLI remote control – GA 14:18 - Organizational model rules - Preview 14:41 - Close ▬▬▬▬▬▬ Want to learn more? 🚀 ▬▬▬▬▬▬ 📖 Recommended Learning Path for Azure 🔗 https://learn.onboardtoazure.com 🥇 Certification Content Repository 🔗 https://github.com/johnthebrit/Certif... 📅 Weekly Azure Update 🔗    • Azure Infrastructure Updates   ☁ Azure Master Class 🔗    • Microsoft Azure Master Class v2 (being upd...   ⚙ DevOps Master Class 🔗    • DevOps Master Class   💻 PowerShell Master Class 🔗    • PowerShell Master Class   🎓 Certification Cram Videos 🔗    • Microsoft Certification Exam Prep Videos   🧠 Mentoring Content 🔗    • Virtual Mentoring   ❔ Questions? Maybe I answered it in my FAQ 🔗 https://savilltech.com/faq 👕 Cure Childhood Cancer Charity T-Shirt Channel Store 🔗 https://johns-t-shirts-store.creator-... 👂 Enable the subtitles and from there you can translate to your native language via the auto-translate feature in settings!    • YouTube Captions and Auto Translate Quick ...   for a demo of using this feature. SUBSCRIBE ✅    / @ntfaqguy   #microsoft #AI #johnsavillstechnicaltraining