Microsoft Lore
Microsoft's third CEO, who took the job in February 2014.
Who is Satya Nadella?
At what event did Microsoft Discovery get announced for GA (General Availability)?
What is Build 2026?
Microsoft Discovery runs on teams of these autonomous but human-guided AI workers.
What are agents?
SaaS
What is Software as a Service?
17 × 6 − 4²
What is 86?
"To empower every person and every organization on the planet to ______."
What is "achieve more"?
Unveiled at Build 2026, this topological chip holds qubit lifetimes measured in seconds.
What is Majorana 2?
Discovery helped prototype a data-center coolant in roughly this many hours instead of months.
What is 200?
LLM
What is a Large Language Model?
25% of 880, minus 3³
What is 193?
Gates and Allen founded Microsoft in 1975 in this New Mexico city.
What is Albuquerque?
Microsoft's in-house model family, including Thinking-1 and Code-1 variants.
What is MAI?
The phrase for keeping a scientist in the review loop so agents propose but humans dispose.
What is human-in-the-loop?
MCP
What is Model Context Protocol?
√169 + 5! ÷ 10
What is 25?
Microsoft paid $7.5 billion for this platform in 2018.
What is GitHub?
With AI-accelerated materials work, Microsoft now targets this year for a commercially scalable quantum computer.
What is 2029?
When a model invents a confident-sounding citation that doesn't exist, researchers call it this.
What is a hallucination?
GraphRAG
What is Graph Retrieval Augmented Generation?
7! ÷ 5!
What is 42?
This 1995 OS launched with the Start button and a Rolling Stones anthem.
What is Windows 95?
Majorana 2 qubits are roughly this many times more reliable than Majorana 1.
What is 1,000?
Published in Nature in 2021, this DeepMind system solved a 50-year grand challenge in biology; Microsoft's own MatterGen now attempts the analogous leap for inorganic materials.
What is AlphaFold?
CLIO
What is Cognitive Loop via in-situ Optimization?
Solve 4x − 9 = 3x + 15, then compute x ÷ 4 + 2³
What is 14?