Artificial Intelligence
Pursuing computing advances to create intelligent machines that complement human reasoning to augment and enrich our experience and competencies.
Tool
Magma
Magma is a multimodal foundation model designed to both understand and act in digital and physical environments. Magma builds on the foundation models paradigm that pretraining on a larger amount of more diverse datasets allows…
Podcast
Abstracts: Heat Transfer and Deep Learning with Hongxia Hao and Bing Lv
Silicon has long borne the burden of heat transfer in electronics, but in a post-Moore’s Law world, researchers like Hongxia Hao and Bing Lv are using AI to discover and design next-generation materials that exceed…
Publication
LLMs Get Lost In Multi-Turn Conversation
Microsoft Research Blog
Research Focus: Week of May 7, 2025
In this issue: New research on compound AI systems and causal verification of the Confidential Consortium Framework; release of Phi-4-reasoning; enriching tabular data with semantic structure, and more.
Tool
OG-RAG
OG-RAG enhances Large Language Models (LLMs) with domain-specific ontologies for improved factual accuracy and contextually relevant responses in fields with specialized workflows like agriculture, healthcare, knowledge work, and more. Paper: OG-RAG: Ontology-Grounded Retrieval-Augmented Generation For…
Microsoft Research Blog
Microsoft Fusion Summit explores how AI can accelerate fusion research
The first Microsoft Research Fusion Summit brought together global experts to explore how AI can help unlock the potential of fusion energy. Discover how collaborations with leading institutions can help speed progress toward clean, scalable…
Video
Nuclear Fusion – Fireside Discussion
The Microsoft Research Fusion Summit culminated in a thought-provoking panel discussion moderated by Ade Famoti, featuring Archie Manoharan, Richard Buttery, Steven Cowley, and Chris Bishop, Microsoft Technical Fellow and director of Microsoft Research AI for…
Video
1st Annual Fusion Summit: Research Lightning Talks
At the Microsoft Fusion Summit, lightning talks from Microsoft Research labs addressed the central question of AI’s potential to accelerate fusion research and engineering. Speakers covered a wide range of applications—from using gaming AI for…
Video
Accelerating the discovery of fusion reactor materials
One persistent challenge in fusion reactor design involves building the interior “first wall,” which must withstand extreme heat and particle bombardment. At the Microsoft Research Fusion Summit, Zulfi Alam, corporate vice president of Microsoft Quantum…
Video
AI as an Accelerator for Fusion
Richard Buttery (opens in new tab), director and VP of the national fusion program at DIII-D, North America’s largest fusion facility, operated by General Atomics and owned by the US Department of Energy (DOE), provides a…
