Build context-aware agents: From data to decisions | BRK240
Microsoft introduces Microsoft IQ to give agents shared enterprise context, addressing why agentic projects fail.
“More than 40% of agentic AI projects are expected to fail. And that's not because the models aren't capable, but it's because the agents lack the context that they need to be able to succeed.”
At Microsoft Build, Amanda Silver and Marco Casalaina argued that over 40% of agentic AI projects will fail due to missing context rather than weak models, and unveiled Microsoft IQ as a shared context layer giving agents understanding of enterprise people, data, and policies. This matters because it reframes agent reliability as a context-infrastructure problem and signals Microsoft's strategy to reduce per-agent engineering and hallucination at the platform level.