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Research at Microsoft 2023: A year of groundbreaking AI advances and discoveries 

December 22, 2023
AI saw unparalleled growth in 2023, reaching millions daily. This progress owes much to the extensive work of Microsoft researchers and collaborators. In this review, learn about the advances in 2023, which set the stage for further progress in 2024.

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  1. Research Focus 31

    Research Focus: Week of December 18, 2023 

    December 20, 2023

    In this issue of Research Focus: Optimized exit-augmented models for scalable efficient inference; NeurIPS LLM Efficiency Challenge; LLM-empowered automated data exploration; Boosting cloud efficiency with data-driven decision-making and optimization.

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    Steering at the Frontier: Extending the Power of Prompting 

    December 12, 2023 | Eric Horvitz, Harsha Nori, and Yin Tat Lee

    We’re seeing exciting capabilities of frontier foundation models, including intriguing powers of abstraction, generalization, and composition across numerous areas of knowledge and expertise. Even seasoned AI researchers have been impressed with the ability to steer the models with straightforward, zero-shot prompts. Beyond basic, out-of-the-box prompting, we’ve been…

  3. Satya Nadella on stage at Microsoft Ignite 2023 announcing Phi-2.

    Phi-2: The surprising power of small language models 

    December 12, 2023 | Mojan Javaheripi and Sébastien Bubeck

    Phi-2 is now accessible on the Azure model catalog. Its compact size and new innovations in model scaling and training data curation make it ideal for exploration around mechanistic interpretability, safety improvements, and fine-tuning experimentation on a variety of tasks.

  4. Research Focus Edition 30 December 6, 2023

    Research Focus: Week of December 4, 2023 

    December 6, 2023

    Research Focus: Using LLMs in a Rust-based formal verification framework; Rethinking network measurements with user feedback; 3D telemedicine using HoloportationTM communication technology could enhance overseas surgical visits.

  5. Blue to green gradient. Two rows of hands: the top row signing ASL and the bottom row signing Data.

    Tackling sign language data inequity 

    December 4, 2023

    ASL Citizen is the first crowdsourced sign language dataset, advancing the state of the art in sign recognition. The web-based project captured input from people in real-world settings, and from a diverse group of experts, including Deaf team members.

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