AI-powered microgrids facilitate energy resilience and equity in regional communities
| Peeyush Kumar
When augmented with AI, small power grids can create opportunities for decentralized, equitable, and resilient power. Microsoft’s collaboration shows AI’s potential to optimize energy distribution and empower communities.
Research Focus: Week of October 28, 2024
New Research | FLASH: Workflow automation agent for diagnosing recurring incidents; METAREFLECTION: Learning instructions for language agents using past reflections; Boosting LLM training efficiency through faster communication between GPUs; and more.
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AFMR was recognized in the Microsoft Annual Report 2024
Through our Accelerating Foundation Models Research program, we’ve made grants to hundreds of projects in AI safety and alignment research, AI-driven scientific discovery, and beneficial applications of AI. And we launched our Global Perspectives Responsible AI Fellowship program, designed to…
Introducing DRIFT Search: Combining global and local search methods to improve quality and efficiency
| Julian Whiting, Zachary Hills, Alonso Guevara Fernández, Ha Trinh, Adam Bradley, and Jonathan Larson
GraphRAG leverages semantic structuring of data to generate responses to complex user queries. A collaboration with Uncharted expands the frontiers of this technology, developing a new approach to processing local queries: DRIFT search.
MarS：生成式基座模型时代的通用金融市场模拟引擎
编者按：生成式基座模型（Generative Foundation Model）已成功应用在多个领域，并塑造了全新的生产范式。将这一范式与行业特有数据结合，有望构建具有行业特色的生成式基座模型。对此，微软亚洲研究院从金融场景出发，设计了大市场模型 LMM 和金融市场模拟引擎 MarS，希望帮助金融研究人员为不同场景定制生成式模型，并且构建适用于金融市场所有下游任务的生成式基座模型应用新范式，为金融...
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Understanding why do People engage with Unreliable Websites
In today’s digital landscape, the spread of misinformation is a growing concern. Many discussions have centered around how people come across unreliable information online, especially through search engines. As part of a team of researchers from Princeton University and Microsoft…
In the news | Electro Optics
Ariel Gomez Diaz named one of the Photonics100 for 2025
Microsoft Research senior optical scientist Ariel Gomez Diaz was selected for the 2025 Photonics100 list, which celebrates individuals driving innovation in photonics and optical technology worldwide. Ariel's work explores revolutionary optical technologies with tangible applications for cloud infrastructure.
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Why Can’t I Vote Online?
Why can’t I vote online? And what would happen if I could? Over the past two months, I called up a bunch of voting and security experts to try to answer that question. And the answer I found is more…
Find My Things: New teachable AI tool helps blind and low-vision people locate lost personal items
| Martin Grayson, Daniela Massiceti, Cecily Morrison, and Karolina Pakėnaitė
Teachable AI is personalizing accessibility for people with disabilities, giving them the power to train AI-based tools and apps to provide help in their daily lives. Find My Things, available with the Seeing AI app, is a great example.