Microsoft
2 milestones · 2021–2025
Explore Microsoft's role in AI history across 2 milestones from 2021 to 2025, with the strongest concentration in product launches.
Chronology
GitHub Copilot: AI Writes Code
GitHub launched Copilot as a technical preview — an AI pair programmer powered by OpenAI Codex that could autocomplete entire functions, write boilerplate, and suggest code from natural language comments. It was trained on billions of lines of public code.
The Rise of AI Agents
By 2025, frontier models were being wrapped in systems that could browse the web, call tools, edit files, execute code, manage state, and carry multi-step tasks forward with limited supervision. Claude Code, OpenAI's Operator, Google's Project Mariner, OpenClaw, and a wave of agent frameworks turned 'AI agent' from a research label into a practical product category.