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…
In the news | Microsoft Stories Asia
Microsoft, university researchers use AI to aid in study of ancient script on China’s ‘oracle bones’
Since farmers began digging up ancient bone fragments in the fields around the Yellow River in eastern China over 100 years ago, researchers have been poring over the mysterious script found on them. The script on the “oracle bones,” so…
We are announcing ClimaX, a flexible and generalizable deep learning model for weather and climate science. ClimaX is trained using several heterogeneous datasets spanning many weather variables at multiple spatio-temporal resolutions. We show that such a foundational model can be…
Research Focus: Week of January 23, 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. Organizations must digitize various documents, many with charts and images, to manage…
Biomedical Research Platform Terra Now Available on Microsoft Azure
| Ilyana Rosenberg, Jer-Ming Chia, and Chaitanya Bangur
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…