Microsoft Developer: Grounding Agents with Real World Intelligence

Discover how Microsoft Web IQ helps AI agents access fresh, trustworthy information from across the web, and how grounding, passage-level retrieval, citations, and scopes improve answer quality and transparency. In this session we'll explore Web IQ’s search verticals, Auto mode, Places, and fast versus advanced retrieval. See how its low-latency, token-efficient architecture supports production-scale agents.



Chapters:



0:00 - Why Agents Need Web Grounding

1:36 - Introducing Microsoft Web IQ

2:12 - Grounded Answers with Citations

3:17 - Risks of Outdated Information

4:22 - What Is Web IQ?

5:30 - Search Modes and API Options

6:36 - Quality, Speed, and Token Efficiency

8:15 - Passage-Level Retrieval

9:22 - Reduce Agent Latency and Costs

10:26 - Responsible Enterprise Grounding

11:29 - Control Sources with Scopes

12:34 - Auto Search and Places

14:47 - Fast vs. Advanced Mode

15:52 - Competitive Intelligence Example

17:31 - Set Up Your First Web IQ Call

18:37 - Build a Web-Grounded Agent

19:11 - Demo: Analyze US Energy Markets

20:18 - Inspect Activity and Citations

21:22 - Key Benefits and Resources



Resources:



Check out the Web IQ Cookbook in the repo: https://aka.ms/iq-series

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/webiq

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/web-iq/