Microsoft Build 2025: Three highlights that Apple should pay attention to

Yesterday, Microsoft has his annual developer conference with a number of AI functions, models and functions that they bring to its own systems, many developers can also use.

While some are very specific for Microsoft's ecosystem, there were some that would undoubtedly be a great addition to Apple's own AI offer if they finally materialize.

#1: Access on-Device-Ki models via Edge

A new APIS enables developers to be able to access the 3.8 billion parameter-parameter-4 mini model, which is built directly into the EDGE browser from their websites or extensions into the EDGE browser. As Microsoft explains:

The AI ​​-APIs include the fast API for simple model requests and writing APIs to create, summarize and edit text that are now available in the channels of Edge Canary and DEV. The translator -API will soon join this suite and activate text translations

In addition, a PDF translation function for edge was introduced, with which users can easily convert entire documents into their preferred language.

#2: A coding agent

Last year Apple SWIFT ASSIST announced that the company's answer to GitHub's fantastic copilot function. Apple's promise was a AI tool in Xcode with which developers would optimize their coding with the current Swift and SDK knowledge.

A year later, Swift Assist is still a promise. Github Copilot, on the other hand, has developed a lot.

Last Monday, Microsoft announced a new coding agent for Github Copilot, and the way it works is quite interesting: the agent is assigned a problem on Github as a human employee would do. Then clone the repository on a virtual machine, keep a protocol of its argumentation process while it processes the code and identifies it for human review.

Although it cannot encode a whole, complex app stillThis is the type of things that lowers the entry barrier for the app development, what Apple always said. In addition, this can also call up hours or even working days for the most experienced developers.

#3 Model Context Protocol (MCP) Support

I recently wrote about it, but yesterday's message that Microsoft will take over the MCP from Anthropic Native shows that this protocol is really a industry standard for interconnectivity between AI models and platforms or systems.

With this integration, AI agents (according to Microsoft, ie) are given access to Kern -Windows functions such as the file system, which facilitates much more intuitive and automated functions within applications.

Essentially, it enables AI models to interact directly with the system and the installed apps, which is dangerous if it sounds. But just as promising.

According to Microsoft, this support is initially published to selected developers, which is a good idea when you consider how badly it is called back with the rollout of the window.

Do you think we will see this type of announcement next month at WWDC 2025? If you are a developer, what kind of AI support do you want to use Apple's operating systems? Let us know in the comments.