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In our annual Impact Summary report, we highlight how Microsoft is meeting the moment with AI to create a more inclusive, sustainable, and trusted future.

What’s next for AI, and what are the main technical hurdles to overcome? That was one of the questions we asked when working on our deep dive into Microsoft’s history and future in artificial intelligence,…

The director of Microsoft’s AI for Good Lab on how the technology is helping to address intractable global challenges—and what all leaders can learn from those efforts.

The health of our society is deeply intertwined with the health of our planet. While much of the global conversation around the environment focuses on the devastating impacts of climate change, it is crucial to…

In this episode of the Eye on AI podcast, we dive deep into the world of AI agents with Ece Kamar, VP of Research and Managing Director of AI Frontiers Lab at Microsoft. Ece shares…

Improving LLMs’ ability to retrieve in-prompt information can impact important applications such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and in-context learning (ICL). Microsoft Research and Tsinghua University researchers have introduced Differential Transformer (Diff Transformer), a new LLM architecture that amplifies…

Since the early 1990s, the promise of AI has been a driving force at Microsoft Research, which has a track record of breakthroughs in speech recognition, computer vision, machine learning, and other research that continues…

Christopher Bishop, Technical Fellow and Director of Microsoft Research AI for Science, discusses how the deep learning technology that underpins the AI revolution is advancing at an extraordinary pace, with many of the most exciting…

Microsoft exec and Learn Serve Lead 2024 speaker James Weinstein, DO, says the technology could eventually expand access and quality, but privacy concerns remain. While artificial intelligence (AI) tools are drawing attention for their potential…

David Baker received the Nobel Prize today for breakthrough work in protein design, on creating new proteins to serve as novel therapies and vaccines. Five years ago, we made the decision to go all-in with…