AIOpsLab: Building AI agents for autonomous clouds
| Minghua Ma, Gagan Somashekar, Rujia Wang, Chetan Bansal, and Saravan Rajmohan
AIOpsLab is an open-source framework designed to evaluate and improve AI agents for cloud operations, offering standardized, scalable benchmarks for real-world testing, enhancing cloud system reliability.
Microsoft Research did extraordinary work this year, using AI and scientific research to make progress on real-world challenges like climate change, food security, global health, and human trafficking. Learn more.
Ideas: AI and democracy with Madeleine Daepp and Robert Osazuwa Ness
| Ginny Badanes, Madeleine Daepp, and Robert Osazuwa Ness
As the “biggest election year in history” comes to an end, researchers Madeleine Daepp and Robert Osazuwa Ness and Democracy Forward GM Ginny Badanes discuss AI’s impact on democracy, including Daepp and Ness’s research into the tech’s use in Taiwan…
Awards | IEEE Computer Society
Yasuyuki Matsushita named IEEE Fellow
Microsoft Research congratulates Yasuyuki Matsushita on being named a 2025 IEEE Fellow for his outstanding contributions to photometric 3D modeling and computational photography.
Research Focus: Week of December 16, 2024
NeoMem: hardware/software co-design for CXL-native memory tiering; Chimera: accurate retrosynthesis prediction by ensembling models with diverse inductive biases; GA4GH task execution API enables multicloud task execution.
In the news | Microsoft on the Issues
Announcing SPARROW: A Breakthrough AI Tool to Measure and Protect Earth’s Biodiversity in the Most Remote Places
SPARROW, developed by Microsoft’s AI for Good Lab, is a solar-powered, AI-driven system for monitoring biodiversity in remote areas.
2025年六大AI趋势展望
随着2025年的临近，人工智能正逐步从辅助工具演变为工作与生活中不可或缺的伙伴。AI 驱动的代理（agent）将拥有更高的自主性来执行更多任务，从而提升人们的生活质量。人工智能在记忆与推理能力上的创新，也将助力人类社会寻找应对气候变化、医疗健康等重大挑战的新方法。而微软始终致力于帮助人们安全、可靠地构建与使用人工智能。 “人工智能已经将不可能变为可能，过去一年我们看到众多个人和组织从 AI 实验转...
With the rapid advancements in AI and robotics, the development of highly intelligent robots capable of seamlessly interacting with the physical environment is becoming increasingly achievable. As the next AI wave, embodied AI innovations promise to revolutionize various industries and…
NeurIPS 2024: The co-evolution of AI and systems with Lidong Zhou
| Lidong Zhou and Eliza Strickland
Just after his NeurIPS 2024 keynote on the co-evolution of systems and AI, Microsoft CVP Lidong Zhou joins the podcast to discuss how rapidly advancing AI impacts the systems supporting it and the opportunities to use AI to enhance systems…