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Windows 11 has entered a subtle but profound new era in personal computing, marked by the introduction of Mu, Microsoft’s small but powerful AI model. Far from the high-profile, attention-grabbing assistants we've come to associate with AI—think of Alexa echoing in your home or Copilot speaking...

Scientific discovery is rarely a solo endeavor. The march of progress is propelled by incremental breakthroughs, paradigm shifts, and the relentless curiosity of generations of scientists. Nowhere is this narrative more evident than in the development of density functional theory (DFT)—a quantum...

Microsoft’s journey as both a leader and “customer zero” in artificial intelligence innovation is emblematic of how entrenched research traditions can be disrupted—and ultimately enhanced—by the very technologies they seek to understand and improve. The company’s deliberate approach to...

As artificial intelligence continues to redefine the landscape of modern labor, Microsoft’s release of the 2025 Work Trend Index provides fresh, data-backed insights into how organizations are not only adapting to, but actively harnessing, the “AI Work Era.” Nowhere is this movement more...

Few areas in science are as compelling—both for their promise and their difficulty—as the pursuit of nuclear fusion. The quest to replicate the Sun’s inexhaustible energy source on Earth has spanned decades, attracting some of the world’s brightest scientists and engineers. The logic is clear...

Navigating Cultural Landscapes: A Heart-Focused Research Journey at Microsoft Research Asia Across the globe, diverse cultures paint a vivid mosaic—a tapestry where every hue tells its own unique story. In the high-tech corridors of Microsoft Research Asia, this vibrant interplay of cultural...

AI’s race from the petri dish of theoretical research to the messy, unpredictable wilds of industry is no simple sprint—it’s more like an obstacle course with moving finish lines and an ever-watchful audience holding up scorecards that judge both style and substance. Navigating this terrain...

The future of knowledge work is being quietly, and sometimes not so quietly, rewritten by silicon wordsmiths and digital brainstormers: artificial intelligence has left the realm of science fiction, and is now squatting in meeting rooms, quietly nudging us to stay on topic, challenging our...

As Microsoft commemorates its 50th anniversary, the spotlight shines on its significant presence in Vancouver, British Columbia. This milestone not only marks half a century of technological innovation but also underscores Vancouver's pivotal role in Microsoft's global narrative. The Genesis of...

People who use AI on complex tasks tend to stick with it, and Microsoft's latest research confirms it. In a deep dive into Bing Chat interactions from May 2024, the Semantic Telemetry Project reveals striking insights into how users engage with AI systems based on the nature and complexity of...

AI Debugging: The Next Frontier for Windows Innovation Recent news has cast a spotlight on the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence in software development. An article from PCMag, published just a couple of hours ago, noted that while leading AI platforms—such as those developed by OpenAI...

LLMs have come a long way from their early days as text predictors in a digital sandbox. Today’s models face a challenging conundrum: how to bridge the vast gap between their broad training data and the specialized, ever-evolving information encountered in real-world industrial applications...

The rapid explosion of online video content has long challenged computational systems—raw pixel data overflows processing pipelines and strains hardware resources. But what if there were a way to strip videos down into their most informative, bite-sized pieces? Enter VidTok, a groundbreaking...

Innovative Research Driving the Future of AI and Beyond Microsoft’s research team, along with its academic and industry collaborators, is turning heads with a slate of cutting-edge developments that promise to redefine personalized conversational agents, geologic map analysis, industrial...

Robust manipulation of optical transceivers in cluttered cable environments has long been a technical challenge—one that demands more than brute force or simple, pre-programmed routines. Recent Microsoft research is tackling this problem head on by integrating advanced 3D scene understanding...

Fast Video Generation: Diagonal Decoding Breakthrough in Autoregressive Models Autoregressive transformer models have revolutionized video generation, but one nagging bottleneck has kept developers and researchers awake at night: the painfully sequential, token-by-token decoding process. Enter...

Microsoft Research is ushering in a new era for AI with its recently unveiled foundation model, Magma. Designed to seamlessly integrate digital and physical interactions, Magma is a multimodal AI agent that not only navigates complex software interfaces but also orchestrates robotic manipulation...

Microsoft Research is once again setting a new benchmark in artificial intelligence innovation with its breakthrough project, Chimera. Unveiled during a recent Microsoft Research Forum session, Chimera promises to dramatically accelerate the drug discovery process by accurately predicting...

Microsoft Research is once again raising the bar in artificial intelligence innovation. Their recent breakthrough—the Belief State Transformer—introduces a novel twist on transformer architectures and promises to improve the way models plan, evaluate, and generate text. This fresh approach not...

In a riveting panel discussion hosted by Microsoft Research, leading experts unveiled how generative AI is revolutionizing healthcare by “learning the language of nature and patients.” The conversation, featuring panelists Lili Qiu, Ava Amini, Carlo Bifulco, and Matthew Lungren, delved deep into...