AI For Good Lab

March 20, 2025

In 2022, we set out to help answer a question we heard time and time again: how much renewable energy does the world have? Joining with The Nature Conservancy and Planet , Microsoft’s AI for Good Lab announced the launch…

March 20, 2025

A constellation of satellites orbiting 250 miles above Earth’s surface shows how solar and wind have taken off in recent years.

March 18, 2025

Students are buzzing with excitement because their lesson is a little different today. They’re about to embark on an extraordinary quest within Minecraft Education. As Vatican Conservators in the Peter is Here: AI for Cultural Heritage game, their task is to…

March 17, 2025

We would like to extend our deepest sympathies to everyone affected by the extreme weather events in the Southeastern United States. Our lab has conducted building damage assessments for areas in Arkansas affected by the recent tornadoes. In collaboration with Planet…

March 11, 2025

Proteins are the tiny machines that power life, from helping us fight infections to breaking down food for energy. But many proteins don’t work alone, they come together in complex structures called homo-oligomers. Understanding how they assemble is key to…

February 17, 2025

Every year, 20% of all fishing gear in the world’s oceans is lost and an estimated 50,000 tons of lost fishing nets or ‘ghost nets’ end up in the oceans, posing a danger to a variety of marine wildlife. To…

February 11, 2025

Microsoft and our partners are launching HeritageWatch.AI, a nonprofit that will use AI to protect cultural heritage sites across the globe and help us preserve humanity’s past for future generations.

February 10, 2025

With rural areas significantly lagging behind cities in computer use, research by Raffaella Sadun, Shane Greenstein, and colleagues finds that many Americans lack the digital literacy that’s increasingly needed in an AI world.