In the news | VentureBeat
Microsoft’s new AI framework trains powerful reasoning models with a fraction of the cost
RenderFormer: How neural networks are reshaping 3D rendering
| Yue Dong
RenderFormer, from Microsoft Research, is the first model to show that a neural network can learn a complete graphics rendering pipeline. It’s designed to support full-featured 3D rendering using only machine learning—no traditional graphics computation required.
Breaking the networking wall in AI infrastructure
| Paolo Costa
Datacenter memory and network limits are restraining AI system performance. MOSAIC uses microLEDs and a wide-and-slow optical architecture to deliver faster, longer, more reliable, and energy efficient connections that could transform AI cluster designs.
BRIDGE：突破SFT-RL两阶段训练瓶颈，开辟推理模型协同优化新路径
编者按：在数学、编程等高度挑战的推理任务中，大语言模型正在展现前所未有的突破。然而，支撑其背后的传统训练范式仍存在效率低下与“灾难性遗忘”的困境。为此，微软亚洲研究院与香港中文大学联合提出了 BRIDGE 框架，通过双层优化机制让监督微调（SFT）与强化学习（RL）“携手并进”，突破了长期以来的两阶段训练瓶颈。BRIDGE 不仅在多个权威测试中实现了显著的性能提升，还为未来大模型后训练开辟了新方向...
Awards | MIT Technology Review
Tian Xie named to MIT Technology Review’s 2025 Innovators Under 35
Tian led the development of MatterGen, our generative AI model for materials discovery.
祝贺微软亚洲研究院常务副院长郭百宁博士荣膺微软技术院士！
近日，微软亚洲研究院常务副院长郭百宁博士荣获了微软技术院士（Microsoft Technical Fellow）称号。作为微软公司技术领域的最高荣誉，微软技术院士是对技术人员在技术创新与行业影响力方面的至高认可。更值得庆贺的是，郭百宁博士是微软亚洲研究院以及微软亚太研发集团史上首位获此殊荣的研究员！ 郭百宁博士长期深耕于计算机视觉、计算机图形学、多媒体以及多模态人工智能等领域。他带领团队取得了多...
In the news | Open to Debate
E. Glen Weyl debate Curtis Yarvin
Glen Weyl debate prominent anti-democratic technologist and philosopher Curtis Yarvin on whether the US should be ruled by a CEO dictator.
In the news | NVIDIA Blog
Scene it to believe it: Populate 3D worlds quickly with NVIDIA AI blueprints
NVIDIA released the AI Blueprint for 3D object generation — a workflow that lets 3D artists create up to 20 3D objects to prototype a scene from a simple text prompt. Microsoft Research Asia’s TRELLIS NVIDIA NIM microservice works within…
In the news | Microsoft Source
Microsoft’s analog optical computer cracks two practical problems and shows AI promise
A small Microsoft Research team had lofty goals when it set out four years ago to create an analog optical computer that would use light as a medium for solving complex problems. From the beginning, they wanted to build it using…