When industry knowledge meets PIKE-RAG: The innovation behind Signify’s customer service boost
| Industry Innovation Center
A collaboration between Signify and Microsoft Research shows how PIKE-RAG improves enterprise knowledge systems, delivering a 12% increase in accuracy and faster, more reliable answers.
Awards | University of Wisconsin - Madison
2025 Hirschfelder Award Banquet celebrates Dr. Frank Noé
The 2025–2026 Joseph O. Hirschfelder Prize in Theoretical Chemistry was awarded to Dr. Frank Noé, Partner Research Manager at Microsoft Research AI for Science on October 21, 2025 at the Hirschfelder Award Banquet held at Maple Bluff Country Club. The…
Magentic Marketplace: an open-source simulation environment for studying agentic markets
| Gagan Bansal, Wenyue Hua, Zachary Huang, Adam Fourney, Amanda Swearngin, Chinmay Singh, Brendan Lucier, Jake Hofman, Markus Mobius, Will Epperson, Tyler Payne, Akshay Nambi, Archana Yadav, Maya Murad, Matthew Vogel, Alex Slivkins, Dan Goldstein, David Rothschild, Hussein Mozannar, Nicole Immorlica, Subbarao Kambhampati, Eric Horvitz, and Saleema Amershi
AI agents are poised to transform digital marketplaces. To explore what can happen when AI agents interact and transact at scale, we built Magentic Marketplace, an open-source simulation environment for studying agentic market designs.
In the news | TechCrunch
Microsoft built a fake marketplace to test AI agents — they failed in surprising ways
On Wednesday, researchers at Microsoft released a new simulation environment designed to test AI agents, along with new research showing that current agentic models may be vulnerable to manipulation. Conducted in collaboration with Arizona State University, the research raises new questions about…
RedCodeAgent: Automatic red-teaming agent against diverse code agents
| Chengquan Guo , Chulin Xie, Yu Yang, Zhaorun Chen, Zinan Lin, Xander Davies, Yarin Gal, Dawn Song, and Bo Li
Code agents help streamline software development workflows, but may also introduce critical security risks. Learn how RedCodeAgent automates and improves “red-teaming” attack simulations to help uncover real-world threats that other methods overlook.
In the news | LinkedIn
Announcing AI Diffusion Report
As part of our AI Economy Institute, we’re releasing the @Microsoft AI Diffusion Report, which highlights global trends in AI development, infrastructure, and adoption—and what’s driving those patterns around the world. In less than three years, more than 1.2…
In the news | Gulf News
UAE tops global rankings in AI adoption in the workplace: Microsoft report
The UAE has claimed the top global ranking for artificial intelligence adoption in the workplace, achieving the highest rate of AI utilisation among the working population in 2025, surpassing some of the world’s most advanced digital economies, according to a…
当工业知识遇上PIKE-RAG：昕诺飞客服效率跃升背后的技术突破
编者按：RAG（检索增强生成）技术通过为 AI 配备“外挂知识库”，有效缓解了大模型的私域知识欠缺和幻觉问题，使其更适合需要专业知识和实时数据支撑的业务场景。微软亚洲研究院开发的多功能、可扩展的 PIKE-RAG，则进一步提升了大模型在复杂工业场景中的推理和应用能力。 基于这一技术，全球照明领导者昕诺飞（Signify，原飞利浦照明）与微软亚洲研究院合作，在其知识管理系统中进行了 PIKE-RAG...
In the news | Business Insider
AI is spreading faster than electricity or the internet — but half the world can’t join in, Microsoft report says
Microsoft says AI is spreading faster than any technology ever — but billions are being left behind. The tech giant warns the AI revolution could deepen global inequality without urgent investment. Most AI models are trained in English, leaving billions…