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Research Focus: Week of May 13, 2024
Welcome to Research Focus, a series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable performance in generating text similar to…
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Research Forum Episode 2: Transforming health care and the natural sciences, AI and society, and the evolution of foundational AI technologies
Research advances are driving real-world impact faster than ever. Episode 2 of Microsoft Research Forum explores how AI is transforming health care and the natural sciences, the intersection of AI and society, and the evolution of foundational AI technologies.
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Announcing the DeepSpeed4Science Initiative: Enabling large-scale scientific discovery through sophisticated AI system technologies
| Shuaiwen Leon Song, Bonnie Kruft, Minjia Zhang, Conglong Li, Martin Cai, and Yuxiong He
Editor’s note, Sept. 28, 2023 – The founding collaborators list was updated to correct omissions and the scientific foundation model graph was updated to correct information. In the next decade, deep learning may revolutionize the natural sciences, enhancing our capacity to…
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Microsoft’s AI for Science Senior Director Bonnie Kruft
Dr. Bonnie Kruft currently serves as the Senior Director at Microsoft’s AI for Science, and in our conversation, we cover everything from quantum chemistry to data science. Tuning in you’ll hear Dr. Kruft unpack how she went from earning a…