Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
Providing further transparency on our responsible AI efforts
As a company at the forefront of AI research and technology, we are committed to sharing our practices with the public as they evolve. This report enables us to share our maturing practices, reflect on…
The tiny glass blocks that can preserve your data for centuries
For years governments, hospitals and families have had to use frail magnetic storage for their most important data. Now, scientists have an alternative — that lasts for ever…
AI ‘for all’: How access to new models is advancing academic research, from astronomy to education
In early 2023, Professor Alice Oh and her colleagues at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) realized they needed to address the quickly growing interest in OpenAI ChatGPT among KAIST’s students. ChatGPT…
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
3 big AI trends to watch in 2024
2023 was a major year for generative AI, as it went from research labs to real life with millions of people using it through popular tools like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot. This year, AI is…
Microsoft LASERs away LLM inaccuracies
During the January Microsoft Research Forum, Dipendra Misra, a senior researcher at Microsoft Research Lab NYC and AI Frontiers, explained how Layer-Selective Rank Reduction (or LASER) can make large language models more accurate.
Microsoft Research Debuts Phi-2, New Small Language Model
Phi-2 is a generative AI model with 2.7 billion-parameters used for research and development of language models. Phi-2 is available in the Azure AI Studio model catalog. Microsoft intends for it to be used only…
Microsoft releases Phi-2, a small language model AI that outperforms Llama 2, Mistral 7B
The rapid pace of generative AI news and announcements isn’t slowing down, even as we reach the final stretches of 2023 and the traditional winter holiday quiet period. Just take a look at Microsoft Research,…
The Sequence Chat: Doug Burger- Technical Fellow, Microsoft Research About Building Autonomous Agents, AutoGen and the Future of Generative AI
One of the collaborators in the AutoGen project, shares insights about its vision, architecture and the future of autonomous agents.