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In the news | DeepLearning.AI
Smarts for Farms
The next green revolution may be happening in the server room. What’s new: Microsoft open-sourced AI tools designed to help farmers cut costs and improve yields. How it works: FarmVibes-AI includes systems that analyze overhead imagery and sensor data to…
In the news | The Hindu
Microsoft to open source its agri-tech tools to enable data-driven farming
Experts believe that open sourcing tech tools for farming can help tackle world’s urgent food and climate change crisis. Microsoft will open source the tools of its farm-focused technology, Project FarmVibes, to let researchers, data scientists, and farmers build on…
In the news | NewsNation
Farmers are harvesting data to increase yields
Andrew Nelson’s family has farmed in the rolling hills of eastern Washington state for five generations. Rows of wheat, peas, lentils and barley stretch across their 7,500-acre farm. Yet each spring, those hills provided constant stress when trying to predict…
In the news | TechTalkThai
Microsoft opens open source AI algorithms to help manage farms
Microsoft has announced the launch of the FarmVibes project and released open source, FarmVibes.AI ai algorithms used in this project, a project that uses AI to manage farms, helping to make farming more efficient. Within the system, several types of…
In the news | Popular Science
Microsoft is hoping its algorithms can help farmers—and the planet
Can the people of the world be fed without ruining the planet in the process? Among the many scientists, organizations, companies, and farmers working on this problem is Microsoft. Yesterday, the tech giant open-sourced what they call the toolkit for…
In the news | Geekwire
Microsoft open-sources farm technologies, planting seeds for data-driven sustainable agriculture
Microsoft Research is releasing the underlying code for a series of agricultural technologies under open-source licenses, encouraging soil specialists, plant scientists and other experts to build tech solutions for sustainable farms. The move comes as U.S. farmers grapple with low…
In the news | SiliconAngle
Microsoft open-sources AI algorithms for optimizing farm operations
Microsoft Corp. today open-sourced FarmVibes.AI, a collection of artificial intelligence models that farm operators can use to perform tasks such as planting crops more efficiently. FarmVibes.AI is one of several technologies that Microsoft has developed as part of an initiative…
Awards | The Breakthrough Prize Foundation
Ronen Eldan honored with the prestigious New Horizons in Mathematics Prize
Ronen Eldan, Weizmann Institute of Science and Microsoft Research, was honored with the prestigious New Horizons in Mathematics Prize for the creation of the stochastic localization method, that has led to significant progress in several open problems in high-dimensional geometry…
In the news | GSK
GSK and Microsoft, in collaboration with the Centre for Health and Disease Studies, launch disease surveillance project in Nepal
GSK plc (LSE/NYSE: GSK) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), in an innovative collaboration with the Centre for Health and Disease Studies (CHDS) Nepal, today announced the start of a disease surveillance project in Nepal. The pilot project, which will leverage Microsoft’s…