Research
Designing technologies that expand access, opportunity, and digital inclusion in underserved communities around the world.
AgriAdvisor is a pilot demo created in collaboration with TomorrowNow.org, Tomorrow.io and Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Research Organisation (KALRO). This AI copilot provides small-scale farmers with real-time, reliable weather and agronomic guidance that can help…
Printed circuit boards are abundant—in the stuff we use and in landfills. Researcher Jake Smith and professor Aniruddh Vashisth discuss the development of vitrimer-based PCBs that perform comparably to traditional PCBs but have less environmental…
A voice first AI data assistant that enables Small & Medium Businesses (SMBs) to collate their business information, and glean rich insights
An AI copilot that combines gen AI and localized weather data to produce actionable agronomic advice
Understanding the functionality of GenAI amongst small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and in the healthcare sector across Africa
The Embodied AI 2024 workshop will be held in conjunction with CVPR 2024 in Seattle, Washington. The overarching theme of this year’s workshop is Open World Embodied AI: Being an embodied agent in a world…
In this issue: RELEVANCE automatically evaluates creative LLM responses; Recyclable vitrimer-based printed circuit boards; Lean Attention: Hardware-aware scalable attention mechanism; WaveCoder: a fine-tuned code LLM; New AutoGen training course.
Jacki O’Neill saw an opportunity to expand Microsoft research efforts to Africa. She now leads Microsoft Research Africa, Nairobi (formerly MARI). O’Neill talks about the choices that got her there, the lab’s impact, and how…
