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Microsoft’s Vijay Mital Explains How CEOs Can Guide Their Organizations Through Radical Product Innovation with AI
AI can drive radical product innovation, transforming business models and industries. To unlock this opportunity, CEOs must lead with vision and curiosity.
Toward modular models: Collaborative AI development enables model accountability and continuous learning
| Lucas Caccia, Darya Moldavskaya, and Alessandro Sordoni
Modular models can democratize AI development while unlocking new benefits and use cases. Modularized AI can be more flexible, more compliant, and cheaper to develop—requiring less data and fewer compute resources to train expert models.
Research Focus: Week of November 11, 2024
Holistic motion-capture calibration technique without calibration, manual intervention or custom hardware; Research on AI agents for autonomous clouds; Automating proof-oriented program construction; One-to-many testing for natural language code generation.
近实时的全球碳预算，揭示2023年陆地碳汇能力锐减
编者按：2023年12月，“全球碳项目”（Global Carbon Project，GCP）发布了《2023年全球碳预算》（Global Carbon Budget 2023）报告。然而，该报告仅覆盖至2022年底的碳预算监测，时间滞后长达一年。作为制定与实施“双碳”策略的关键参考，这种长时间的延迟使得碳预算结果难以提供良好的参考依据。针对延迟问题，微软亚洲研究院联合清华大学和法国原子能署气候与...
Microsoft Research Asia’s prestigious StarTrack Scholars has officially taken flight, extending a global invitation to brilliant minds for an immersive three-month research visit. The program features collaboration with elite researchers, a deep dive into the Microsoft Research environment, and a…
By Sinem Akinci (opens in new tab), Microsoft Developer Division and Cindy Chiu, Microsoft Experimentation Platform Generative AI (opens in new tab) [1] leverages deep learning models to identify underlying patterns and generate original content, such as text, images, and…
Preventing side-channels in the cloud
| Stavros Volos and Boris Köpf
Sophisticated side-channel attacks present new security challenges for cloud providers. Learn how Microsoft is exploring defenses against emerging attacks with principled microarchitectural isolation:
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Comprehensive Genomic Profiling leads to better patient outcomes, new joint study says
New real-world data from Providence, Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN), and Microsoft Research reveals that Comprehensive Genomic Profiling (CGP), when done early in a cancer patient’s diagnosis, leads to better personalized treatment and patient outcomes. The findings come out of the first…
Collaborators: Prompt engineering with Siddharth Suri and David Holtz
| Gretchen Huizinga, David Holtz, and Siddharth Suri
Researcher Siddharth Suri and professor David Holtz give a brief history of prompt engineering, discuss the debate behind their recent collaboration, and share what they found from studying how people’s approaches to prompting change as models advance.