Artificial Intelligence
Pursuing computing advances to create intelligent machines that complement human reasoning to augment and enrich our experience and competencies.
Tool
Skill Slice Insights
This is the official code repository for the paper “Unearthing Skill-level Insights for Understanding Tradeoffs of Foundation Models”. All rationales, localized skills, and skill-slices for the 12 datasets studied in the paper can also be accessed…
Microsoft Research Blog
Research Focus: Week of January 13, 2025
In this edition: Privacy enhancements for multiparty deep learning; using smaller, open-source models to provide relevance judgments; new tool uses AI, data to automate innovation and development; Yasuyuki Matsushita named IEEE 2025 Computer Society Fellow.
Project
OptiGuide: GenAI for Supply Chain Optimization
Decision intelligence with GenAI OptiGuide’s goal is to democratize decision making by bringing together optimization and generative AI tools. OptiGuide has already been used in production to answer “what if” questions of cloud supply chain…
Project
Cloud Efficiency Optimization (CLEO)
Improving resource utilization and sustainability The goal of this project is to infuse optimization solutions across Microsoft’s Cloud, targeting improvements in resource utilization (space, power, compute) and sustainability. We are interested in both fundamental and…
Podcast
Ideas: AI for materials discovery with Tian Xie and Ziheng Lu
How do you generate and test materials that don’t exist yet? Researchers Tian Xie and Ziheng Lu share the story behind MatterGen and MatterSim, AI tools poised to transform materials discovery and help drive advances…
Microsoft Research Blog
MatterGen: A new paradigm of materials design with generative AI
Microsoft researchers introduce MatterGen, a model that can discover new materials tailored to specific needs—like efficient solar cells or CO2 recycling—advancing progress beyond trial-and-error experiments.
Publication