On Second Thought is a video series built around the questions everyone’s asking about AI. With expert voices from across Microsoft, we break down the tension and promise of this rapidly changing technology, exploring what’s evolving and what’s possible.
Food systems, on land and at sea, are foundational to global economies and human flourishing. They are sources of livelihood for millions of people and provide nutrition for everyone on the planet. Yet today, these systems are under pressure, making their sustainability critical for both…
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) show promise in gastroenterology, yet their performance against comprehensive clinical workflows and human benchmarks remains unverified. To systematically evaluate state-of-the-art MLLMs across a panoramic gastrointestinal endoscopy workflow and determine their clinical utility compared with human endoscopists. We constructed GI-Bench, a…
This Research Internship will include (1) conducting threat modeling for Large Language Model (LLM)‑enabled agentic designs and identifying practical mitigations for Windows OS; (2) developing or refining formal security frameworks that support scalable designs and sound reasoning about system behavior; and (3) producing security proofs…
The mission of the AI Frontiers Lab is to expand the pareto frontier of AI capabilities, efficiency, and safety through innovations in foundation models and learning agent platforms. We are seeking a Research Intern to join our team and contribute to efforts on the advancement of…
From look-alike SUVs to AI interfaces, designers from Figma, Microsoft, Pentagram, and more reveal the objects, places, and experiences they’re working to improve this year.
https://ai-reasoning.github.io/ AI models are increasingly capable of solving sophisticated tasks that require reasoning. But how do we improve the quality of that reasoning, especially when the models operate as black boxes? In this talk, Sumit Gulwani shares practical strategies for improving AI reasoning in the…
Automated evaluation and testing of AI agents AI agents are rapidly transforming software, with projections of over a billion agents in operation by 2028. These agents, embedded in products like VS Code and M365 Copilot, perform increasingly complex tasks—writing code, conducting research, and automating workflows.…
Microsoft Research seeks a Senior Researcher specializing in one or more areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI) infrastructure, Machine Learning (ML) systems, and high-performance computing (HPC) systems. The position involves working collaboratively to advance state-of-the art in AI Systems and improving the efficiency and scalability of…
Global adoption of artificial intelligence continued to rise in the second half of 2025, increasing by 1.2 percentage points compared to the first half of the year, with roughly one in six people worldwide now using generative AI tools, remarkable progress for a technology that only recently entered…
January 7 - In the past decade, cloud-scale analytics tools have transformed the digital fight against deforestation. Instead of manual reviews of satellite images taking multiple months, land-use change can today be monitored in near-real time. Some artificial intelligence-enabled tools are even allowing authorities to…
Welcome to a special edition of Tools and Weapons, as Brad Smith and Juan M. Lavista Ferres review the results from Microsoft’s newest AI Diffusion Report. These show the state of global AI usage as we look ahead in 2026, and there’s a lot that…
