The Next Era of AI Research

Research advances are driving real-world impact faster than ever, with the latest advances in AI transforming the way we all live, work, and think.

In this episode, discover how precision health, multimodal AI agents, and innovative chemical synthesis models are advancing clinical care, agents, and drug discovery. Explore the latest techniques for ensuring memory safety, fixing programming errors, and empowering the next generation of agentic AI. Read more about this episode below, and register (opens in new tab) for the series.

“Today we are seeing so much AI research happening at the speed of conversation, to the point where even our top researchers feel that their heads are spinning, but working together, providing openness, providing greater access, we can see that we’ve made tremendous progress.”

– Peter Lee, President, Microsoft Research

@ the Forum

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Research Forum Episode 5 | Hoifung Poon

Keynote: Multimodal generative AI for precision health

Hoifung Poon introduces an agenda in precision health, utilizing generative AI to pretrain high-fidelity patient embeddings from multimodal, longitudinal patient journeys. This approach unlocks population-scale real-world evidence, optimizing clinical care and accelerating biomedical discovery.

Research Forum Episode 5 | panel discussion

Microsoft researchers and external guests explore the transformative potential of generative AI in learning the language of nature and patients for precision health, from proteins to medical imaging, from electronic medical records to home health monitoring. Emphasis is placed on the end-to-end innovation cycle from foundational research to deep partnership to productization.

Lightning talks & essays

Informative talks and thought-provoking essays from researchers across Microsoft about fundamental AI advances, the impact of AI on health and natural sciences, the intersection of AI and society, and more.

Chimera: Accurate synthesis prediction by ensembling models with diverse induction biases

Presented by Marwin Segler

Magma: A foundation model for multimodal AI agents

Presented by Jianwei Yang

Belief state transformers

Presented by John Langford

AutoGen v0.4: Reimagining the foundation of agentic AI for scale, extensibility, and robustness

Presented by Gagan Bansal

LLMs for safe low-level programming

Presented by Aseem Rastogi and Pantazis Deligiannis

Beyond the Forum

Research Forum is just a snapshot of the great work happening across the research community at Microsoft. Explore these links to learn more about the work of our researchers and their collaborators, the bold new ideas they’re exploring, and the impact they’ll achieve.