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Project SPARROW – Guardians for the planet
In northern central Colombia, Middle Magdalena Valley (MMV) is home to some of the world’s most remarkable biodiversity. Stretching between the central and eastern Andes mountains, this valley is crucial to the health of our planet. But the region—full of…
Awards | ACM SIGMICRO
Esha Choukse receives 2025 SIGMICRO Early Career Award
Choukse was recognized for her foundational contributions to hardware memory compression and to sustainable and efficient datacenter systems.
Phi-Ground模型：让AI学会“看屏幕”
编者按：随着多模态和推理模型的快速发展，能够自主理解并操作计算机界面的智能体（Computer Use Agent, CUA）正逐渐成为现实。其中，图形界面定位（GUI Grounding）是实现这一能力的核心环节，它决定了智能体能否准确地完成点击、输入等具体操作。然而，现有模型在关键基准测试中的准确率仍较低，距离实际应用尚有差距。对此，微软亚洲研究院近期发布了技术报告系统分析了 GUI Grou...
The AI Economy Institute (AIEI) is launching its second cohort of researchers, advancing our mission to understand and accelerate the responsible diffusion of artificial intelligence (AI) across economies, industries, and communities. This year’s theme—Education in the AI Economy—places diffusion at…
When industry knowledge meets PIKE-RAG: The innovation behind Signify’s customer service boost
| Industry Innovation Center
A collaboration between Signify and Microsoft Research shows how PIKE-RAG improves enterprise knowledge systems, delivering a 12% increase in accuracy and faster, more reliable answers.
Awards | University of Wisconsin - Madison
2025 Hirschfelder Award Banquet celebrates Dr. Frank Noé
The 2025–2026 Joseph O. Hirschfelder Prize in Theoretical Chemistry was awarded to Dr. Frank Noé, Partner Research Manager at Microsoft Research AI for Science on October 21, 2025 at the Hirschfelder Award Banquet held at Maple Bluff Country Club. The…
Magentic Marketplace: an open-source simulation environment for studying agentic markets
| Gagan Bansal, Wenyue Hua, Zachary Huang, Adam Fourney, Amanda Swearngin, Chinmay Singh, Brendan Lucier, Jake Hofman, Markus Mobius, Will Epperson, Tyler Payne, Akshay Nambi, Archana Yadav, Maya Murad, Matthew Vogel, Alex Slivkins, Dan Goldstein, David Rothschild, Hussein Mozannar, Nicole Immorlica, Subbarao Kambhampati, Eric Horvitz, and Saleema Amershi
AI agents are poised to transform digital marketplaces. To explore what can happen when AI agents interact and transact at scale, we built Magentic Marketplace, an open-source simulation environment for studying agentic market designs.
In the news | TechCrunch
Microsoft built a fake marketplace to test AI agents — they failed in surprising ways
On Wednesday, researchers at Microsoft released a new simulation environment designed to test AI agents, along with new research showing that current agentic models may be vulnerable to manipulation. Conducted in collaboration with Arizona State University, the research raises new questions about…
RedCodeAgent: Automatic red-teaming agent against diverse code agents
| Chengquan Guo , Chulin Xie, Yu Yang, Zhaorun Chen, Zinan Lin, Xander Davies, Yarin Gal, Dawn Song, and Bo Li
Code agents help streamline software development workflows, but may also introduce critical security risks. Learn how RedCodeAgent automates and improves “red-teaming” attack simulations to help uncover real-world threats that other methods overlook.