Abstracts: Zero-shot models in single-cell biology with Alex Lu
| Gretchen Huizinga and Alex Lu
The emergence of foundation models has sparked interest in applications to single-cell biology, but when tested in zero-shot settings, they underperform compared to simpler methods. Alex Lu shares insights on why more research on AI models is needed in biological…
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Healthcare Agent Orchestrator: Multi-agent Framework for Domain-Specific Decision Support
Abstracts: Aurora with Megan Stanley and Wessel Bruinsma
| Amber Tingle, Megan Stanley, and Wessel Bruinsma
A new Nature paper explores Aurora, an AI model that redefines weather prediction with application to other environmental domains such as tropical cyclones. Hear from senior researchers Megan Stanley and Wessel Bruinsma as they share their groundbreaking work.
Collaborators: Healthcare Innovation to Impact
| Matthew Lungren, Jonathan M. Carlson, Smitha Saligrama, Will Guyman, and Cameron Runde
In this discussion, Matthew Lungren, Jonathan Carlson, Smitha Saligrama, Will Guyman, and Cameron Runde explore how teams across Microsoft are working together to generate advanced AI capabilities and solutions for developers and clinicians around the globe.
In the news | Microsoft Build 2025
Inside Azure innovations with Mark Russinovich
Join Mark Russinovich, CTO, Deputy CISO, Technical Fellow of Microsoft Azure. Mark will take you on a tour of the latest innovations in Azure architecture and explain how Azure enables intelligent, modern, and innovative applications at scale in the cloud,…
Magentic-UI, an experimental human-centered web agent
| Hussein Mozannar, Gagan Bansal, Cheng Tan, Adam Fourney, Victor Dibia, Friederike Niedtner, Jack Gerrits, Jacob Alber, Jingya Chen, Griffin Bassman, Erkang (Eric) Zhu, Peter Chang, Ricky Loynd, Maya Murad, Rafah Hosn, Ece Kamar, and Saleema Amershi
Magentic-UI, new from Microsoft Research, is an open-source research prototype of a human-centered AI agent, designed to work with people to complete complex, web-based tasks in real time over a web browser.
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Developing next-generation cancer care management with multi-agent orchestration
Philip Rosenfield, Alex X. Lu, Ava P. Amini, Lorin Crawford, Kasia Z. Kedzierska Single-cell foundation models are an exciting paradigm for biologists, as they may accelerate the understanding of complex cell data and reveal previously unknown biology. Single-cell foundation models…