Research
Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
When news of the earthquakes in Afghanistan broke in October 2023, Microsoft AI for Good Lab mobilized to support first responders with our rapid damage-assessment capabilities. We discovered something surprising in the course of this…
Consider how Napster, the networked file sharing system, upended the music industry. The emergence of generative AI language models like ChatGPT, has much in common with this Napster-initiated inflection point: a breakthrough technology with breathtakingly…
One of the collaborators in the AutoGen project, shares insights about its vision, architecture and the future of autonomous agents.
Congratulations to Karin Strauss, Senior Principal Research Manager in AI4Science, who was recently named as a 2024 IEEE Fellow!
A conversation with Peter Lee on the POSSIBLE Podcast. “At some point, it just makes sense that, of course, you would never practice medicine without washing your hands first. And we will definitively get to…
Sebastien Bubeck is a senior principal research manager in the Machine Learning Foundations Group at Microsoft Research. Bubeck often generates stories about unicorns for his young daughter using a chatbot powered by GPT-4, the latest…
Artificial intelligence models are getting bigger, along with the data sets used to train them. But scaling down could solve some big AI problems. Artificial intelligence has been growing in size. The large language models…
Even as the world bears witness to the power struggle and mass resignation at OpenAI, Microsoft, the long-time backer of the AI major, is not slowing down its own AI efforts. Today, the research arm…
Given the urgency of the planetary crisis, society needs to push harder on the AI accelerator while establishing guardrails that steer the world safely, securely, and equitably toward net-zero emissions, climate resilience, and a nature-positive…
Applying the advancing tech to how we grow and cultivate our food has some big upsides — but is it worth the cost? What happens when a robotics expert and a sixth-generation farmer decide to…