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The yield imperative: Turning AI infrastructure into useful intelligence
As we enter the next era, what will be the defining measure of our progress? Every industry has a word that shapes how it thinks. For pilots, it’s safety. For insurers, it’s risk. For the semiconductor industry, it’s yield. Yield does not ask how elegant the solution is, how many years it took or what... The post The y...
GigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash: Toward population-scale discovery with efficient pathology foundation models
What if pathology foundation models could do more with less? GigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash cut computational demands while maintaining strong performance, opening the door to larger studies and broader exploration. The post GigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash: Toward population-scale discovery with efficient patholog...
Broadening access to Skala creates a faster path to predictive DFT
Skala 1.1, the updated deep-learning exchange-correlation functional from Microsoft Research, provides greater accuracy, expanded accessibility across the computational chemistry ecosystem, and a living benchmark to track computational performance. The post Broadening access to Skala creates a faster path to predictiv...
MindTopo reveals VLMs’ spatial reasoning abilities
A path, a fence, a knot. MindTopo sets a new benchmark for testing how AI understands topological relationships and highlights new opportunities to strengthen spatial reasoning and planning. The post MindTopo reveals VLMs’ spatial reasoning abilities appeared first on Microsoft Research.
Introducing CARE-X: Towards Clinically Useful Radiology VLMs with Auxiliary Supervision, Reward-Aligned Learning, and Tool-Augmented Measurement
Radiology AI is evolving beyond report generation. CARE-X explores a unified approach that combines flexible reasoning, calibrated predictions, and measurement-based tools for chest X-ray interpretation. The post Introducing CARE-X: Towards Clinically Useful Radiology VLMs with Auxiliary Supervision, Reward-Aligned Lea...
Orchard: An open framework for scalable agentic AI
Orchard is an open-source framework for the research community to train and evaluate AI agents across task types. It reduces complexity while supporting strong performance from smaller models by enabling researchers to reuse the same infrastructure. The post Orchard: An open framework for scalable agentic AI appeared f...
Echoverse: Deep, evolving environments for computer-use agents
Computer-use AI agents struggle with multi-step workflows like email and customer support. Echoverse trains agents in realistic environments rather than simply providing more training tasks, helping them improve as the tasks, tests, and environments evolve. The post Echoverse: Deep, evolving environments for computer-u...
EvoLib: Turning experience into evolving knowledge
LLMs do not get smarter just by remembering more. EvoLib turns experience into evolving knowledge, taking reusable skills and insights that help models learn and adapt across tasks long after deployment. The post EvoLib: Turning experience into evolving knowledge appeared first on Microsoft Research.
Powering America’s Genesis Mission: Microsoft’s commitment to scientific discovery
Today, we’re excited to share a long-term commitment to the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Genesis Mission, backed by a $60 million investment designed to accelerate AI for science and the breakthroughs it can deliver for the country. This deepened commitment includes Microsoft’s new Scientific Partnership Advancing Rese...
Microsoft expands Azure AI and HPC infrastructure with AMD
AI workloads are scaling faster than any single infrastructure approach can support — with more models, new agent-driven workloads and surging compute demand driving the need for greater specialization across the stack. To meet this need, Microsoft continues to evolve Azure’s infrastructure, including expanding its AI ...
Verifying Rust cryptography in SymCrypt, from standards to code
Cryptographic code supports vital protections in modern computing systems. Learn how a new method helps verify code as developers write it while preserving speed and adaptability as it gets implemented and evolves. The post Verifying Rust cryptography in SymCrypt, from standards to code appeared first on Microsoft Rese...
Aurora 1.5: Extending open foundation models for weather and Earth-system applications
Aurora 1.5 adds 22 more variables, hourly temporal resolution, and probabilistic ensemble forecasting to the Aurora foundation model, making it more useful for real-world weather, climate, and energy applications. The post Aurora 1.5: Extending open foundation models for weather and Earth-system applications appeared f...
Flint: A visualization language for the AI era
Short chart specifications are easy to write, but often produce uninspiring results. Flint is an open-source visualization language that offers a middle path, letting AI agents create expressive charts from compact, human-editable specifications. The post Flint: A visualization language for the AI era appeared first on...
Rethinking cloud operations with agentic observability
Cloud operations are entering a new era as AI-driven and autonomous agents become a larger part of modern software systems. As software becomes increasingly agentic, the challenge is no longer just managing greater scale and complexity. Operators must also contend with systems that evolve faster, act more autonomously ...
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