--- title: "Microsoft Discovery Reaches GA on Azure, Powering the Agentic AI Behind Majorana 2 Quantum Chip" url: https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-discovery-reaches-ga-on-azure-powering-the-agentic-ai-behind-majorana-2-quantum-chip-hjczvmcwk source_url: https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/06/microsoft-discovery-majorana-2 type: article source: "InfoQ" published: 2026-06-08T09:30:11.588Z updated: 2026-06-18T21:22:57.902Z tags: ["azure", "ai-agents", "quantum-computing", "agentic-ai"] reading_time: 3 upvotes: 3 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Microsoft Discovery Reaches GA on Azure, Powering the Agentic AI Behind Majorana 2 Quantum Chip **[InfoQ](https://daily.dev/sources/infoq)** · 3 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Microsoft has announced the general availability of Microsoft Discovery, an Azure-based platform for deploying autonomous AI agent teams in scientific R&D workflows. The platform played a key role in developing Majorana 2, a topological quantum chip achieving 1,000x reliability improvement over its predecessor, with mean qubit lifetimes of 20 seconds. Discovery agents managed fabrication workflows, automated measurements, optimized materials stacks, and correlated patterns across nearly two decades of experimental data. The chip uses a lead superconductor instead of aluminum to shield qubits from cosmic disturbances, with operations executing in one microsecond. Microsoft now targets a scalable quantum computer by 2029, halving its original timeline. Early customers include Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Syensqo. A free desktop app preview is available for smaller research teams. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Microsoft's Majorana 2 quantum chip is 1,000x more reliable, targets 2029](https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-s-majorana-2-quantum-chip-is-1-000x-more-reliable-targets-2029-2yvtrqftn) · The Next Web · 3 upvotes · 0 comments - [Microsoft Discovery: Advancing agentic R&D at scale](https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-discovery-advancing-agentic-r-d-at-scale-p4wd9khzf) · Microsoft Azure · 4 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#azure](https://daily.dev/tags/azure), [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#quantum-computing](https://daily.dev/tags/quantum-computing), [#agentic-ai](https://daily.dev/tags/agentic-ai) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-discovery-reaches-ga-on-azure-powering-the-agentic-ai-behind-majorana-2-quantum-chip-hjczvmcwk)