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Microsoft Research and Physics Wallah team up to enhance AI-based tutoring
| Chris Stetkiewicz
Limited resources, geography, and economic factors present barriers to quality education for many students in India. Learn how Microsoft Research is collaborating with Physics Wallah to make AI-based tutoring more accurate, reliable, and affordable.
Over the past two decades, Microsoft Research India has achieved an extraordinary record of innovation—in areas ranging from health and education to agriculture and accessibility.
Ideas: Building AI for population-scale systems with Akshay Nambi
| Chris Stetkiewicz and Akshay Nambi
Advances in AI are driving meaningful real-world impact. Principal Researcher Akshay Nambi shares how his passion for tackling real-world challenges across various domains fuels his work in building reliable and robust AI systems.
PromptWizard: The future of prompt optimization through feedback-driven self-evolving prompts
| Akshay Nambi and Tanuja Ganu
PromptWizard from Microsoft Research is now open source. It is designed to automate and simplify AI prompt optimization, combining iterative LLM feedback with efficient exploration and refinement techniques to create highly effective prompts in minutes.
Microsoft researchers discuss the challenges and opportunities of making AI more inclusive and impactful for everyone—from data that represents a broader range of communities and cultures to novel use cases for AI that are globally relevant.
Ideas: Language technologies for everyone with Kalika Bali
| Kalika Bali and Gretchen Huizinga
The new series “Ideas” debuts with guest Kalika Bali. The speech and language tech researcher talks sci-fi and its impact on her career, the design thinking philosophy behind her research, and the “outrageous idea” she had to work with low-resource…
In the news | LinkedIn
Village by village, creating the building blocks for AI tools
Indian social impact organization, Karya, uses Microsoft AI to provide their employees with educational tools to earn and learn: https://msft.it/6044c3no2
Teachers in India help Microsoft Research design AI tool for creating great classroom content
| Akshay Nambi and Tanuja Ganu
Teachers are the backbone of any educational system. They are not just educators; they are indispensable navigators, mentors, and leaders. Teachers around the world face many challenges, which vary from country to country or even within a city or town.…
In the news | TIME
The Workers Behind AI Rarely See Its Rewards. This Indian Startup Wants to Fix That
In a TIME cover story, Kalika Bali, linguist and principal researcher at Microsoft Research, spoke to Billy Perrigo about the importance of designing AI technology without language barriers. Learn about our innovative work on ethical data collection with Karya.