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Collab AI Research<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

How Microsoft is using science and research to invent the future of collaboration<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Welcome to Collab AI<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Collaboration is a central feature of how work gets done, involving coordination across people, tasks, and information sources. As AI systems increasingly contribute to shared workflows\u2014synthesizing discussions, generating alternatives, maintaining context, and supporting group decision processes that unfold across both synchronous and asynchronous interaction\u2014understanding how humans and AI function together in group settings has become a scientific and operational priority. This shift raises new questions about evolving intent, shared grounding, and how collective reasoning unfolds across time and modalities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Collab AI serves as Microsoft\u2019s research center dedicated to studying collaborative processes and building intelligent systems capable of participating in them. The work spans empirical studies of team interaction, computational models of shared context, dialogic representations that capture how knowledge is co\u2011created, and methods for enabling AI to engage in multi\u2011party alignment and decision\u2011making. Featured papers, talks, and research outputs explore emerging data, architectures, and evaluation frameworks for systems that operate not as single\u2011user tools, but as contributors to group activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dive in to explore the science behind collaborative AI\u2014and to engage with research aimed at creating intelligent systems that do more than assist individuals. The goal is AI that helps teams form collective purpose, sustain coherent dialogue, and work together more effectively than ever before across conversations, shared and co-authored artifacts, meetings, and organizational workflows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Evaluating Proactive AI Mediators in Multi-Party Conversation with\u00a0ProMediate\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

As LLMs evolve toward handling multi-party teamwork, they are increasingly expected to navigate complex group dynamics. However, current research often overlooks the nuance of these interactions. While agents are being designed for multi-party\u00a0settings, we still lack the benchmarks to\u00a0evaluate\u00a0the\u00a0real-time effectiveness<\/strong>\u00a0of their interventions or their\u00a0broader\u00a0socio-cognitive intelligence\u00a0<\/strong>when\u00a0working with groups of people.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Science Corner<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Here you will find talks, tutorials, and perspectives that examine how collaborative intelligence emerges and how AI systems can be designed to support joint work. The content is curated to surface new questions, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding of how humans and intelligent systems will work together next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Talks & thought pieces<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Researcher spotlights<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Paper spotlights<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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