{"id":1123713,"date":"2025-02-25T11:44:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T19:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-story&p=1123713"},"modified":"2025-02-25T16:11:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T00:11:18","slug":"feb-2025-brief","status":"publish","type":"msr-story","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/story\/feb-2025-brief\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Forum Brief | February 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Quarterly Brief | February 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Next Era of AI Research<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Research advances are driving real-world impact faster than ever, with the latest advances in AI transforming the way we all live, work, and think.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this episode, discover how precision health, multimodal AI agents, and innovative chemical synthesis models are advancing clinical care, agents, and drug discovery. Explore the latest techniques for ensuring memory safety, fixing programming errors, and empowering the next generation of agentic AI. Read more about this episode below, and register<\/strong> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> for the series.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Today we are seeing so much AI research happening at the speed of conversation, to the point where even our top researchers feel that their heads are spinning, but working together, providing openness, providing greater access, we can see that we’ve made tremendous progress.”<\/p>\n\u2013 Peter Lee, President, Microsoft Research <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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DIVE INTO OUR COLLECTION OF RESEARCH TALKS AND UPDATES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Keynote: Multimodal generative AI for precision health<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hoifung Poon introduces an agenda in precision health, utilizing generative AI to pretrain high-fidelity patient embeddings from multimodal, longitudinal patient journeys. This approach unlocks population-scale real-world evidence, optimizing clinical care and accelerating biomedical discovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Panel Discussion: AI for Precision Health: Learning the language of nature and patients<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Microsoft researchers and external guests explore the transformative potential of generative AI in learning the language of nature and patients for precision health, from proteins to medical imaging, from electronic medical records to home health monitoring. Emphasis is placed on the end-to-end innovation cycle from foundational research to deep partnership to productization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lightning talks & essays<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Informative talks and thought-provoking essays from researchers across Microsoft about fundamental AI advances, the impact of AI on health and natural sciences, the intersection of AI and society, and more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Chimera: Accurate synthesis prediction by ensembling models with diverse induction biases<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Presented by Marwin Segler<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Magma: A foundation model for multimodal AI agents<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Presented by Jianwei Yang<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Belief state transformers<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Presented by John Langford<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AutoGen v0.4: Reimagining the foundation of agentic AI for scale, extensibility, and robustness<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Presented by Gagan Bansal<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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LLMs for safe low-level programming<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Presented by Aseem Rastogi and Pantazis Deligiannis<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Beyond the Forum<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Research Forum is just a snapshot of the great work happening across the research community at Microsoft. Explore these links to learn more about the work of our researchers and their collaborators, the bold new ideas they\u2019re exploring, and the impact they\u2019ll achieve.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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