Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
Superfast Microsoft AI is first to predict air pollution for the whole world
An artificial intelligence (AI) model developed by Microsoft can accurately forecast weather and air pollution for the whole world — and it does it in less than a minute. The model, called Aurora, is one…
1-bit LLMs Could Solve AI’s Energy Demands
“Imprecise” language models are smaller, speedier—and nearly as accurate. Large language models, the AI systems that power chatbots like ChatGPT, are getting better and better—but they’re also getting bigger and bigger, demanding more energy and…
The Promise of Multi-Agent AI
In this post, I share learnings from my conversation with Chi Wang, a principal researcher at Microsoft and the creator of AutoGen. Agents have been a cornerstone of human-computer interaction for decades, from the friendly…
Microsoft Announces New Foundation Model For Digital Pathology, Diving Deeper Into Clinical Medicine
Microsoft is delving even deeper into clinical medicine, evident by the announcement today highlighting the company’s development of a foundation model for pathology in partnership with Providence and the University of Washington. Specifically, the company…
Microsoft, Providence and UW make use of generative AI for digital cancer diagnosis
Researchers at Microsoft, Providence Health System and the University of Washington say they’ve developed a new artificial intelligence model for diagnosing cancer, based on an analysis of more than a billion images of tissue samples…
Providing further transparency on our responsible AI efforts
As a company at the forefront of AI research and technology, we are committed to sharing our practices with the public as they evolve. This report enables us to share our maturing practices, reflect on…
The tiny glass blocks that can preserve your data for centuries
For years governments, hospitals and families have had to use frail magnetic storage for their most important data. Now, scientists have an alternative — that lasts for ever…
AI ‘for all’: How access to new models is advancing academic research, from astronomy to education
In early 2023, Professor Alice Oh and her colleagues at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) realized they needed to address the quickly growing interest in OpenAI ChatGPT among KAIST’s students. ChatGPT…