Artificial Intelligence
Building intelligent machines that complement human reasoning and extend what people can do.
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Microsoft Research India 2025 Highlights
Here are some highlights of the research and impact at Microsoft Research India in 2025, along with some glimpses of the lab milieu.
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Rick Rashid & Founding Microsoft Research
We were delighted to host a fabulous talk from the founder of Microsoft Research, Rick Rashid! Rick shared lessons learned throughout his career, his motivation and inspiration for creating and designing Microsoft Research, as well…
Microsoft Research Blog
OptiMind: A small language model with optimization expertise
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.
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Controlled LLM Training on Spectral Sphere
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KDD ’25 AI Reasoning Day keynote: Improving AI Reasoning through Intent, Interaction, and Inspection
https://ai-reasoning.github.io/ AI models are increasingly capable of solving sophisticated tasks that require reasoning. But how do we improve the quality of that reasoning, especially when the models operate as black boxes? In this talk, Sumit…
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Agent-Pex: Automated Evaluation and Testing of AI Agents
Automated evaluation and testing of AI agents AI agents are rapidly transforming software, with projections of over a billion agents in operation by 2028. These agents, embedded in products like VS Code and M365 Copilot,…
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GridFM
Small foundation models for the electric grid GridFM is a Microsoft Research initiative to build small foundation models for the electric power grid, applying the same recipe that drives modern language and weather models to…