News and Awards

Congratulations to Karin Strauss, Senior Principal Research Manager in AI4Science, who was recently named as a 2024 IEEE Fellow!

One of the collaborators in the AutoGen project, shares insights about its vision, architecture and the future of autonomous agents.

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…

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…

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…

In one of the most fascinating papers of this year, Microsoft Research explores an unlearning technique for LLMs. The challenge was nothing less than making Llama-7B to forget any knowledge of Harry Potter.