对话松下康之：以具身智能突破人工智能与物理世界的边界
2024年10月，松下康之（Yasuyuki Matsushita）博士在离开近十年之后重返微软亚洲研究院。再次加入，松下康之有了一个全新的身份——微软亚洲研究院（东京）负责人。在此之前，他曾于2003年至2015年间在微软亚洲研究院任职，主要研究方向包括计算机视觉、机器学习和优化等，随后他转赴大阪大学担任教授。 作为微软研究院全球化战略的一部分，微软亚洲研究院东京实验室的成立将进一步巩固微软研究...
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AI agents — what they are, and how they’ll change the way we work
An agent can tackle certain tasks with you or for you, from acting as a virtual project manager to handling more complex assignments like reconciling financial statements to close the books. Microsoft 365 Copilot is already a personal assistant that…
Introducing Yasuyuki Matsushita: Tackling societal challenges with AI at Microsoft Research Asia – Tokyo
Yasuyuki Matsushita rejoins Microsoft to lead the new Microsoft Research Asia - Tokyo lab. Learn more about his journey and his perspective on the Tokyo lab's role in evolution of AI.
BiomedParse: A foundation model for smarter, all-in-one biomedical image analysis
| Hoifung Poon, Theodore Zhao, Yu Gu, Mu Wei, and Sheng Wang
BiomedParse reimagines medical image analysis, integrating advanced AI to capture complex insights across imaging types—a step forward for diagnostics and precision medicine.
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Microsoft establishes a new lab, Microsoft Research Asia – Tokyo
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Global Map of the Unconnected
The Global Map of the Unconnected is being developed in collaboration with Microsoft, Planet and the Institute for Health Metrics of the University of Washington. This tool will help countries monitor and map the number of people who are not…
对话《Nature》论文作者，揭秘AI2BMD背后的故事
作者：科学智能中心 编者按：近期，科学杂志《自然》（《Nature》）正刊发表了微软研究院科学智能中心（AI for Science）团队的研发成果——首个基于人工智能的生物分子量子级精度动力学模拟系统 AI2BMD。该系统不仅突破了传统生物动态研究方法的瓶颈，同时也极大地促进了人工智能在生物分子模拟领域的应用，推动了药物设计、酶工程和疫苗研发等领域的创新进展。 AI2BMD 研究过程中面临了哪些...
GraphRAG: Improving global search via dynamic community selection
| Bryan Li, Ha Trinh, Darren Edge, and Jonathan Larson
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) helps AI systems provide more information to a large language model (LLM) when generating responses to user queries. A new method for conducting “global” queries can optimize the performance of global search in GraphRAG.
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Vatican creates exhibit that will replicate St. Peter’s Basilica using AI
"The People's Basilica" is a 3D replica of St. Peter's Basilica that was made using AI in the Vatican. NBC News' Claudio Lavanga has more on the exhibit and how the model was made.