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News and Awards
Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
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Boost for UK AI as Microsoft unveils £2.5 billion investment
The Chancellor has welcomed Microsoft’s £2.5 billion investment over the next 3 years to expand its next generation AI datacentre infrastructure. The Chancellor has today hailed Microsoft’s major investment in AI infrastructure and skills as…
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Our investment in AI infrastructure, skills and security to boost the UK’s AI potential
Today, Microsoft announced a major AI infrastructure and skilling investment supported by a new partnership on security. It will help the UK seize the artificial intelligence (AI) opportunity and ensure that AI innovation and safety progress…
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A World Seen in Full is a Better World
When news of the earthquakes in Afghanistan broke in October 2023, Microsoft AI for Good Lab mobilized to support first responders with our rapid damage-assessment capabilities. We discovered something surprising in the course of this…
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GenAI Could Transform How Health Care Works
Consider how Napster, the networked file sharing system, upended the music industry. The emergence of generative AI language models like ChatGPT, has much in common with this Napster-initiated inflection point: a breakthrough technology with breathtakingly…
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The Sequence Chat: Doug Burger- Technical Fellow, Microsoft Research About Building Autonomous Agents, AutoGen and the Future of Generative AI
One of the collaborators in the AutoGen project, shares insights about its vision, architecture and the future of autonomous agents.
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Karin Strauss, 2024 IEEE Fellow
Congratulations to Karin Strauss, Senior Principal Research Manager in AI4Science, who was recently named as a 2024 IEEE Fellow!
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Peter Lee on the Future of Health and Medicine
A conversation with Peter Lee on the POSSIBLE Podcast. “At some point, it just makes sense that, of course, you would never practice medicine without washing your hands first. And we will definitively get to…
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What Would the Chatbot Say?
Sebastien Bubeck is a senior principal research manager in the Machine Learning Foundations Group at Microsoft Research. Bubeck often generates stories about unicorns for his young daughter using a chatbot powered by GPT-4, the latest…
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When It Comes to AI Models, Bigger Isn’t Always Better
Artificial intelligence models are getting bigger, along with the data sets used to train them. But scaling down could solve some big AI problems. Artificial intelligence has been growing in size. The large language models…