SAN FRANCISCO -- At the company's Build 2025 conference on Monday, Microsoft announced Microsoft Discovery, a platform that taps agentic artificial intelligence (AI) to "transform the discovery process".

Microsoft Discovery is "extensible," and can handle certain science-related workloads "end-to-end," according to the company.

"Microsoft Discovery is an enterprise agentic platform that helps accelerate research and discovery by transforming the entire discovery process with agentic AI -- from scientific knowledge reasoning to hypothesis formulation, candidate generation, and simulation and analysis," Microsoft said in the press release.

"The platform enables scientists and researchers to collaborate with a team of specialized AI agents to help drive scientific outcomes with speed, scale, and accuracy using the latest innovations in AI and supercomputing," it added.