Nadella built a personal chief-of-staff autopilot agent deployed to Teams
Satya Nadella · Satya Nadella on AI: @NoPriorsPodcast x Latent Space Crossover Special at Microsoft Build 2026 · Jun 3, 2026 · at 26:39
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella describes how he personally creates autonomous long-running agents using Microsoft tools.
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“I think I just built one even last week where the idea was, hey, can I have an agent that is continuously monitoring essentially my own chief of staff autopilot, right? We're going to have that, obviously, in Scout. That's what we showed. But it is so easy and trivial to build. I took it WorkIQ, I said, take WorkIQ, go, ah, and build a Foundry long-running agent, ah, store all the memory in, ah, ah, using Rayfin, right, basically have my back-end as a service, and lo and behold, it built it, and not only built it, I could say publish to Teams, and it published the damn thing to Teams.”
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