In the news | Nature
Make greenhouse-gas accounting reliable — build interoperable systems
Global integrated reporting is essential if the planet is to achieve net-zero emissions. In March, the United Nations took its first meaningful step to hold investors, businesses, cities and regions accountable for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, when UN secretary-general António Guterres…
无限视觉生成模型NUWA-Infinity让视觉艺术创作自由延伸
编者按：此前，微软亚洲研究院提出了多模态模型 NUWA，它可以基于给定的文本、视觉或多模态输入生成图像或视频，并支持多种视觉艺术作品创建任务，包括文本到图像或视频的生成、图像补全、视频预测等。近日，微软亚洲研究院公开发表了新的研究成果：NUWA 的升级版——无限视觉生成模型 NUWA-Infinity，让视觉艺术创作趋于“无限流”，可生成任意大小的高分辨率图像或长时间视频。一起来感受一下 AI 的...
Author: Allie Giddings and Chhaya Methani In our last blog post, we explained how news is surfaced in Supply Chain Insights and how it can be useful for having better risk visibility. Since then, we’ve made two major updates to…
ICML 2022 | 机器学习前沿论文精选！
编者按：ICML 被认为是人工智能、机器学习领域最顶级的国际会议之一，在计算机科学界享有崇高的声望。ICML 2022 于7月17日-23日以线上线下结合的方式举办。今天我们精选了微软亚洲研究院在此次大会上发表的7篇论文，来为大家进行简要介绍，从强化学习、图神经网络、知识图谱表示学习等关键词带你一览机器学习领域的最新成果！ 论文链接：https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.07995...
DeepSpeed Compression: A composable library for extreme compression and zero-cost quantization
| DeepSpeed Team and Andrey Proskurin
Large-scale models are revolutionizing deep learning and AI research, driving major improvements in language understanding, generating creative texts, multi-lingual translation and many more. But despite their remarkable capabilities, the models’ large size creates latency and cost constraints that hinder the…
In the news | IT Pro
Using AI and machine learning to kickstart climate change fightback
Fighting climate change with carbon capture or geoengineering means harnessing the power of AI and sophisticated data modelling. Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning may increase the chances of reducing carbon emissions through carbon capture or geo engineering…
Confidential Containers: Verifiably secure computation in the cloud
| Sean T. Allen
For many organizations, trusting their data to the cloud requires having a complete understanding of and control over the environment in which that data resides and how it’s being processed. Microsoft understands this, and we are committed to building a…
In the news | NHS
Futuristic 3D Holoportation Consultations To Bring Specialist Treatment To Remote Parts Of Scotland
Ground-breaking technology aiming to bring specialist treatment to the most remote parts of Scotland, without the need for travel, has received high praise from patients during successful trials in Glasgow. The West of Scotland Innovation Hub, hosted by NHS Greater…
In the news | Microsoft Source
Microsoft launches Project AirSim, an end-to-end platform to accelerate autonomous flight
Josh Riedy knew it wasn’t real – that he wasn’t actually hovering near the top of a wind turbine in North Dakota, hundreds of feet off the ground. But it didn’t matter when he looked down. His stomach still dropped…