New Delhi, May 27 -- Just before closing his marathon Build 2025 keynote recently, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella talked about the 'next frontier in science.' He officially launched Microsoft Discovery, its new enterprise agentic platform to accelerate research and development (R&D).

Giving a parallel, Nadella said, "Microsoft's AI platform empowers developers and knowledge workers, and one of the most exciting things in the years to come will be real breakthroughs in the scientific process itself. It's about accelerating how we create new materials, new compounds, and new molecules."

Making that into a reality, Microsoft is applying the entire AI stack, right from infrastructure to agents to scientific workflows. This vision culminates in...