{"id":1138804,"date":"2025-05-07T08:11:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T15:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-video&#038;p=1138804"},"modified":"2025-05-07T09:28:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T16:28:37","slug":"1st-annual-fusion-summit-research-lightning-talks","status":"publish","type":"msr-video","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/video\/1st-annual-fusion-summit-research-lightning-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"1st Annual Fusion Summit: Research\u202fLightning Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At the Microsoft Fusion Summit, lightning talks from Microsoft Research labs addressed the central question of AI\u2019s potential to accelerate fusion research and engineering. Speakers covered a wide range of applications\u2014from using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/blog\/introducing-muse-our-first-generative-ai-model-designed-for-gameplay-ideation\/\">gaming AI<\/a> for plasma control, embodied AI and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/collaboration\/embodied-ai\">robotics<\/a> for remote maintenance to physics-informed neural networks for plasma modelling and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/story\/ai-meets-materials-discovery\/\">AI for simulating materials<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/lordnet-neural-pde-solver\/\">plasma behavior<\/a>. 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