Ginkgo Bioworks and Microsoft Discovery: Bringing agentic AI to biological discovery (opens in new tab)

Introduction Biological discovery is inherently iterative and non-linear. Progress comes through cycles of hypothesis, experimentation, refinement, and review across data, tools, and teams. At Microsoft Build 2026, Microsoft announced general availability of Microsoft Discovery to support exactly this kind of work, as a comprehensive platform for building and governing agentic AI workflows across scientific and engineering disciplines. That vision becomes especially powerful in collaboration ...