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…
PromptWizard: The future of prompt optimization through feedback-driven self-evolving prompts
| Akshay Nambi and Tanuja Ganu
PromptWizard from Microsoft Research is now open source. It is designed to automate and simplify AI prompt optimization, combining iterative LLM feedback with efficient exploration and refinement techniques to create highly effective prompts in minutes.
Moving to GraphRAG 1.0 – Streamlining ergonomics for developers and users
| Nathan Evans, Alonso Guevara Fernández, and Joshua Bradley
GraphRAG helps advance AI use in complex domains like science. Thanks to enthusiastic adoption and community engagement, we’ve upgraded the pre-release version. Check out the major ergonomic and structural updates in GraphRAG 1.0.
In the news | Harvard Business Review
How Generative AI Improves Supply Chain Management
Over the past few decades, advances in information technologies have allowed firms working to optimize their supply chains to move from decision-making on the basis of intuition and experience to more automated and data-driven methods, which has increased efficiency and…
In the news | MARKTECHPOST
This AI Paper from Microsoft and Novartis Introduces Chimera: A Machine Learning Framework for Accurate and Scalable Retrosynthesis Prediction
Chemical synthesis is essential in developing new molecules for medical applications, materials science, and fine chemicals. This process, which involves planning chemical reactions to create desired target molecules, has traditionally relied on human expertise. Recent advancements have turned to computational…