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Vision-language models improve multimodal systems, but can make them slower, costlier, and harder to deploy. Learn how Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B, a compact and fast multimodal reasoning model, blends strengths of different methods while reducing their limits: msft.it/6014Q5X0u
CORPGEN enables AI agents to manage dozens of interdependent tasks simultaneously in simulated workplace environments. It maintains performance under heavy multitasking, delivering up to 3.5x higher completion rates than leading baselines. msft.it/6015QbHoH
Long-term glass data storage advances, new work on transferable reasoning, multi-turn AI safety testing, multilingual AI design, and evaluating how models actually think. msft.it/6015QksvJ
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As synthetic media grows, verifying what’s real, and the origin of content, matters more than ever. Our latest report explores media integrity and authentication methods, their limits, and practical paths toward trustworthy provenance across images, audio, and video. msft.it/6012QnGgi
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Project Silica introduces new techniques for encoding data in borosilicate glass, as described in the journal Nature. These advances lower media cost and simplify writing and reading systems while supporting 10,000-year data preservation: msft.it/6017QVklt
Coming March 3 at 9:00 AM PT, our first Microsoft Research Forum episode of the year.
New ARO, Dion2, Magentic Marketplace, OptiMind, Agent Lightning, and Healthbots.
Register to watch: www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
We are pleased to announce that Doug Burger, Technical Fellow and Corporate Vice President at Microsoft Research, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering Class of 2026 for advancing cloud-scale computing and networking with field-programmable systems. msft.it/6011Quo5H
Speech recognition for low-resource languages, medical foundation models, space-based ML, and brain-computer interfaces: msft.it/6016QPDpp
This research looks at why Predictive Inverse Dynamics Models often outperform standard Behavior Cloning in imitation learning. By using simple predictions of what happens next, PIDMs reduce ambiguity and learn from far fewer demonstrations. Learn more: msft.it/6018QMkdO
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Microsoft Research unveils Paza, a human-centered speech pipeline, and PazaBench, the first leaderboard for low-resource languages. It covers 39 African languages and 52 models and is tested with communities in real settings. msft.it/6016QMDHe
Give this a second thought: when language is a barrier to access, AI can help play translator. Here’s how we’re building technology that reflects culture and lived experience.
Explore recent episodes of 'On Second Thought' here: msft.it/6019QKh0f
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Microsoft researchers received the AAAI-26 Outstanding Paper Award for LLM2CLIP, a vision-language framework that uses large language models as “teachers” to help CLIP better understand long, complex captions and achieve state-of-the-art multimodal performance. msft.it/6017QHtL1
In a new paper published in Communications of ACM (CACM), Microsoft researchers explore how a “web of agents” could enable an open, decentralized agentic economy—avoiding walled gardens that limit innovation, concentrate power, and reduce user choice. Read more: msft.it/6043QHUD9
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AI can help generate medical image reports, but today’s models struggle with varying reporting schemes. Learn how UniRG uses reinforcement learning to boost performance of medical vision-language models: msft.it/6018Q1QTn
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AI models that bring language-driven control to the physical world, new work on billion-scale vector search, spatially consistent video generation, tools for analyzing ML-driven cloud systems, and a CVPR 2026 workshop on multimodal AI agents. msft.it/6018Q1Hn8
Madan Musuvathi has been named an ACM Fellow by the Association for Computing Machinery, recognizing his foundational work in concurrency verification and his impact on modern machine learning systems design. Congratulations! msft.it/6014Q8Wvk
The question isn’t whether AI or doctors will shape healthcare. It’s how AI and clinicians can work together to deliver better care.
Watch Episode 1 of On Second Thought with @sineadbovell.bsky.social for the full conversation. msft.it/6014Q8mIq
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Rho-alpha, which translates natural language commands into control signals for robotic systems doing bimanual manipulation tasks, aims to make physical systems more adaptable by using physical sensing modalities like touch and continuous learning from human feedback. msft.it/6018QBUCn
Argos improves multimodal RL by evaluating whether an agent’s reasoning aligns with what it observes over time. The approach reduces visual hallucinations and produces more reliable, data-efficient agents for real-world applications: msft.it/6010QBEgy
“We’re really diverse yet medicine has to operate off of averages.” Futurist @sineadbovell.bsky.social explores with Microsoft’s Jonathan Carlson how AI is helping to unlock a new era of personalized medicine. Watch episode 1, live now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKrG...
OptiMind is a small language model that converts business operation challenges, described naturally, into mathematical formulations that optimization software can solve. It reduces formulation time & errors & enables fast, privacy-preserving local use: msft.it/6017t7ISB
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A look at what’s next in AI, plus new research in multimodal reasoning, long-horizon robotics, scalable self-supervised learning, GPU optimization with AI, and interpretable LLM reasoning. msft.it/6012tfazi
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2025 saw groundbreaking innovations including AI-powered materials discovery tools, protein structure modeling, and multilingual AI for underserved communities. Dive into our Year in Review for a look at these and other transformative advances. msft.it/6011tUVUJ
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From AI-driven material discovery and protein modeling to agentic systems, gaming, and multilingual AI for the global majority, 2025 turned research into real-world impact. Explore the breakthroughs in Microsoft Research’s Year in Review. msft.it/6013tUPR3
Holoportation™ technology, enabling real-time 3D telecommunications, has evolved from the lab to real-world use. After a decade of refinement and real-world deployment, it's been released via open source license to encourage wider use and development: msft.it/6010toiZQ
The Agentic AI Research and Innovation (AARI) initiative brings Microsoft Research and Academic Researchers together to advance safe, robust agentic systems from foundational science to real-world impact through open, global collaboration. msft.it/6045tWLfv
Microsoft Chief Scientific Officer Eric Horvitz on what stood out at NeurIPS 2025, what’s next, and why these moments matter for the future of AI research.
The Microsoft Research Asia StarTrack Scholars Program is a three-month experience designed to foster global collaboration and accelerate frontier research. Applications are due today, December 15. Details on research fields, programs, and application procedures are available at: msft.it/6042tm1oI
ICYMI: Microsoft Chief Product Officer of Responsible AI Sarah Bird talks NeurIPS, the 20th anniversary of WiML, and what's next in RAI.
