Research Focus: Week of February 6, 2023
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…
In the news | CNET
Microsoft’s AI-Powered Bing Challenges Google Search
In the news | Wired
Microsoft Taps ChatGPT to Boost Bing—and Beat Google
In the news | Microsoft News
Reinventing search with a new AI-powered Bing and Edge, your copilot for the web
Divya Siddarth and E. Glen Weyl We are excited to introduce the Decentralized Social Technology Collaboratory (DSTC), a cross-company and multi-partner collaboration with a home base within Microsoft Research (MSR) Special Projects. Collectively, we are exploring how to responsibly create…
让天下没有难训练的大模型，微软亚洲研究院开源TorchScale
编者按：近期，微软亚洲研究院从深度学习基础理论出发，研发并推出了 TorchScale 开源工具包。TorchScale 工具包通过采用 DeepNet、Magneto 和 X-MoE 等最先进的建模技术，可以帮助研究和开发人员提高建模的通用性和整体性能，确保训练模型的稳定性及效率，并允许以不同的模型大小扩展 Transformer 网络。 如今，在包括自然语言处理（NLP）、计算机视觉（CV）、...
In the news | Flagship Pioneering
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Healthcare and Biotech
AI has a massive role to play in the big leaps ahead for biotech and human health from enabling us to explore biology in ways never before possible to speeding up the pace at which we discover and deliver new…
In the news | Microsoft Stories India
Microsoft Research project helps languages survive — and thrive
A woman named Boa Sr was the last link to a 65,000-year-old pre-Neolithic culture on the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean. When she died in 2010, the Bo language died, too, becoming extinct. If that sounds like an isolated…
In the news | Future Scot
Scotland’s ‘innovation fellowship scheme’ points to better health and social care future
Harnessing the game-changing potential of emerging technologies is important in every sector – but within NHS Scotland it is absolutely vital. Improving the quality, efficiency, and sustainability of healthcare must be a key driver in supporting the NHS Recovery Plan to…