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KBLaM blog | A flowchart illustrating the process of handling a prompt using a language model. The process begins with documents being used to construct and summarize a knowledge base (KB) offline. The summarized KB is then encoded and fed into the main process. A prompt goes through a tokenizer, followed by rectangular attention, and then into the large language model (LLM). The LLM retrieves information from the encoded KB to generate an answer.

Introducing KBLaM: Bringing plug-and-play external knowledge to LLMs

Layered image of Phi Silica, a state-of-the-art small language model integrated into Windows 11 Copilot+PCs

Phi Silica, small but mighty on-device SLM

A Ladder of Reasoning: Testing the power of imagination in LLMs

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Mathematical foundations of AI workshop

21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB | October 2026

The workshop on the mathematical foundations of AI, hosted by Microsoft Research Cambridge, brings together researchers from academia and industry to explore emerging directions and open challenges.