Incorporating chemists’ insight with AI models for single-step retrosynthesis prediction
| Lei Fang, Junren Li, Zhao Ming, Li Tan, and Jian-Guang Lou
Retrosynthesis analysis is a critical task in organic chemistry and central to many important industries. It primarily involves decomposing a target molecule into commercially available molecules step by step. Since synthesis strategies can be quite diverse and strategic, retrosynthesis planning…
微软研究院团队获得首届AI药物研发算法大赛总冠军
作者：科学智能中心 编者按：AI 药物研发是人工智能未来应用的重要方向之一。自新冠病毒（SARS-CoV-2）首次爆发以来，新冠病毒的小分子药物研发备受关注，于近期举行的首届 AI 药物研发算法大赛便聚焦于此。在比赛中，来自微软研究院科学智能中心的团队，凭借创新的 AI 模型系统 AI2BMD 和 ViSNet 取得了绝佳的成绩，斩获桂冠。 近日，由清华大学药学院、百度飞桨、百度智能云和临港实验室...
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Using AI to protect the Amazon
The Amazon rainforest in South America is one of the world’s largest and most dense, but it is disappearing at an alarming rate. Estimates from researchers indicate that approximately 18% of the Amazon rainforest has been completely lost, while an…
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Microsoft on the TIME100 AI list
This morning, TIME released its first "TIME100 Artificial Intelligence" list online, which includes Kevin Scott, Jaime Teevan, Kate Crawford, and Kalika Bali.
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Unlocking the potential of in-network computing for telecommunication workloads
As we continue to explore the frontiers of in-network computing, we see a future rife with possibilities, exciting research directions, and new deployments in production environments. Our present efforts with TEA and ExoPlane have shown us what’s possible with on-rack…
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Microsoft and Paige are building the world’s largest AI model for detecting cancer
Microsoft announced Thursday it is teaming up with digital pathology provider Paige to build the world’s largest image-based artificial intelligence model for identifying cancer. The AI model is training on an unprecedented amount of data that includes billions of images,…
Frontiers of multimodal learning: A responsible AI approach
New evaluation methods and a commitment to continual improvement are musts if we’re to build multimodal AI systems that advance human goals. Learn about cutting-edge research into the responsible development and use of multimodal AI at Microsoft.
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AI may hold a key to the preservation of the Amazon rainforest
An animal skitters through the heavy underbrush of the Colombian forest in the dark of night. Hidden deep in the brush is a camera trap that quickly snaps a picture. An AI tool called MegaDetector identifies and classifies the results,…
Ram Hariharan and Will Dubyak We must measure user impact to continue enhancing Copilot User Experience. This post addresses application of A/B testing and the North Star metric to this question. It uses an actual example to demonstrate test set…