Artificial Intelligence
Pursuing computing advances to create intelligent machines that complement human reasoning to augment and enrich our experience and competencies.
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
Roadmap on Neuromorphic Photonics
Microsoft Research Blog
AutoGen v0.4: Reimagining the foundation of agentic AI for scale, extensibility, and robustness
Announcing AutoGen 0.4, fully reimagined library for building advanced agentic AI systems, developed to improve code quality and robustness. Its asynchronous, event-driven architecture is designed to support dynamic, scalable workflows.
