The release of OpenAI’s GPT-4 is a significant advance that builds on several years of rapid innovation in foundation models. GPT-4, which was trained on the Microsoft Azure AI supercomputer, has exhibited significantly improved abilities across many dimensions—from summarizing lengthy documents, to answering complex questions…
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. Attack methods like Spectre (opens in new tab) exploit speculative execution, one of the key performance optimizations of…
As computing and AI advancements spanning decades are enabling incredible opportunities for people and society, they’re also raising questions about responsible development and deployment. For example, the machine learning models powering AI systems may not perform the same for everyone or every condition, potentially leading…
Welcome to Research Focus, a new series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. Many real-world applications require sequential decision making, where an agent interacts with a stochastic environment to perform…
Welcome to Research Focus, a new series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. In the latest episode of Behind the Tech, Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott is joined by Tobi Lütke,…
Welcome to Research Focus, a new series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. Organizations must digitize various documents, many with charts and images, to manage and streamline essential functions. Yet…
We stand at the threshold of a new era of precision medicine, where health and life sciences data hold the potential to dramatically propel and expand our understanding and treatment of human disease. One of the tools that we believe will help to enable precision…
Artificial intelligence, like all tools we build, is an expression of human creativity. As with all creative expression, AI manifests the perspectives and values of its creators. A stance that encourages reflexivity among AI practitioners is a step toward ensuring that AI systems are human-centered,…
Welcome to Research Focus, a new series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. Jan P. Unsleber, Hongbin Liu, Leopold Talirz, Thomas Weymuth, Maximilian Mörchen, Adam Grofe, Dave Wecker, Christopher J.…
2022 has seen remarkable progress in foundational technologies that have helped to advance human knowledge and create new possibilities to address some of society’s most challenging problems. Significant advances in AI have also enabled Microsoft to bring new capabilities to customers through our products and…
Editor's note, June 19, 2023 - The date existing installations of the Soundscape iOS app can continue to be used has been extended to Aug. 30, 2023. The article has been updated to reflect that change. For more than six years, Microsoft Research has been…
This special edition of Research Focus highlights some of the 100+ papers from Microsoft Research that were accepted for publication at NeurIPS 2022 – the thirty-sixth annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. In this issue, we continue to feature some of our 100+ papers accepted…
