{"id":144735,"date":"1998-03-27T00:12:37","date_gmt":"1998-03-27T08:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/group\/natural-language-computing\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T05:44:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T12:44:37","slug":"general-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"msr-group","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/group\/general-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"General Artificial Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"mb-3 moray-highlight\">\n\t<div class=\"card-img-overlay mx-lg-0\">\n\t\t<div class=\"card-background  has-background-grey card-background--full-bleed\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<!-- Foreground -->\n\t\t<div class=\"card-foreground d-flex mt-md-n5 my-lg-5 px-g px-lg-0\">\n\t\t\t<!-- Container -->\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container d-flex mt-md-n5 my-lg-5 align-self-center\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Card wrapper -->\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"w-100 w-lg-col-5\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<!-- Card 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Processing, Speech Processing, Multimodal AI, and AI Agent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the past few years, we have published and open sourced pioneering and high-impact research works and models, including UniLM, InfoXLM, XLM-E, MiniLM(-2), (m)E5, Layout(X)LM(-3), WavLM, BEiT(-3), Kosmos(-2), VALL-E, DeepNet, LongNet, (Gated) RetNet, YOCO \/ Decoder-Decoder Architecture, 1-bit LLMs \/ BitNet (b1.58 | a4.8), Q-Sparse \/ Fully Sparsely-Activated LLMs, DIFF (Differential Transformer), LatentLM \/ Multimodal Latent Language Modeling, RPT \/ Reinforcement Pre-Training, VibeVoice, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>Research Areas<\/b><br>\n<ul>\n<li>Foundation Models: LLMs\/MLLMs<\/li>\n<li>General AI Fundamentals<\/li>\n<li>Agentic AI<\/li>\n<li>NLP<\/li>\n<li>Speech<\/li>\n<li>Multimodal 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