Artificial Intelligence
Building intelligent machines that complement human reasoning and extend what people can do.
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Responsible innovation at the frontiers of science
To mark the 30th anniversary of Microsoft Research, Eric Horvitz, Chief Scientific Officer, hosts a series of panel discussions on the “Generations of Inspirational and Impactful Research”. The panelists, comprised of current and past Microsoft…
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Azure AI milestone: New foundation model Florence v1.0 advances state of the art, topping popular computer vision leaderboards
The Project Florence Team Florence v1.0—along with recent milestones in Neural Text-to-Speech and question answering—is part of a larger Azure AI (opens in new tab)mission to provide relevant, meaningful AI solutions and services that work…
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FastSeq
FastSeq provides efficient implementation of popular sequence models (e.g. Bart, ProphetNet) for text generation, summarization, translation tasks etc. It automatically optimizes inference speed based on popular NLP toolkits (e.g. FairSeq and HuggingFace-Transformers) without accuracy loss.
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