Research
Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
Microsoft has revealed the newest addition to its Phi family of generative AI models. Called Phi-4, the model improves in several areas over its predecessors, Microsoft claims, particularly in solving math problems. That’s partly the…
One of the key questions driving Ece Kamar’s research as managing director of Microsoft’s AI Frontiers Lab is how to coordinate networks of these agents—AI systems that can perform autonomous tasks beyond the scope of…
Microsoft launched a new artificial intelligence model today that achieves remarkable mathematical reasoning capabilities while using far fewer computational resources than its larger competitors. The 14-billion-parameter Phi-4 frequently outperforms much larger models like Google’s Gemini…
In the guts of a new type of computer, a bunch of tiny LEDs emit a green glow. Those lights have a job to do. They’re performing calculations. Right now, this math is telling the…
According to Ashley Llorens, corporate vice president and managing director at Microsoft Research, AI models will soon be able to handle far more complex tasks, such as triaging customer requests or tracking employee expenses. Additionally,…
Today we will share how the Applied Sciences team used a multi-interdisciplinary approach to achieve a breakthrough in power efficiency, inference speed and memory efficiency for a state-of-the-art small language model (SLM), Phi Silica.
Our increasingly digitized world is creating more data every year, including videos from ubiquitous smart phones, observations from billions of sensors and surveillance cameras, output from artificial intelligence, and much more. Until now, exponential growth…
Magentic-One is a new generalist multi-agent system developed by Microsoft Research, designed to handle open-ended tasks based on web and file information across various domains. This essay will examine the architecture of Magentic-One, its capabilities,…
As data grows, so does the need to store it. Microsoft’s Project Silica is offering an archive alternative to tape with the promise of permanence.
