Agents for Productivity (A4P) Our mission AI agents are becoming central to how people get work done, but today’s systems still fall short on reliability, context retention, and real world workflow execution. The Agents for Productivity (A4P) initiative advances the core research needed to enable…
Advancing human health through machine learning research. The Health Futures UK team pursues machine learning research in service of advancing human health and our understanding of medicine. Drawing on our expertise in medical imaging and multimodal deep learning, our work spans healthcare delivery and fundamental…
Science + Innovation for Next-Gen Productivity IDEAS Research is the applied science team in IDEAS, the central data organization in Microsoft's productivity division. Our mission is to advance the frontier of human productivity in the AI era. We work at the intersection of computer and…
Advanced machine learning research, grounded in trust, efficiency, capability. The Machine Intelligence team at MSR Cambridge (UK) is dedicated to foundational machine-learning research, guided by the principles of responsible AI, collaboration, and scientific excellence. Our work is grounded in trust, capability, and efficiency, and we…
Developing knowledge, model capabilities, and experiences that centre human values. People-Centric AI develops knowledge, model capabilities, and experiences that enable human agency and skill, support creativity and collaboration, and ensure equitable representation and participation. We do this by blending research disciplines, design, and engineering. A…
Innovative hardware and systems for sustainable and efficient AI infrastructure Our mission in Future AI Infrastructure is to co-design the next generation of hardware and systems for Microsoft’s AI and Cloud datacenters—spanning storage, networking and compute, and other foundational technologies for our AI stack. We…
Shaping the future of content and collaboration in OneDrive and SharePoint The ODSP Applied Science team is shaping the future of content and collaboration by transforming OneDrive and SharePoint into a planet-scale, AI-native knowledge substrate, with security, privacy, and responsibility at its core. We're redefining…
The AI Economy Institute (AIEI) is Microsoft’s flagship think tank dedicated to shaping an inclusive, trustworthy AI economy. We building a network of scholars and convening that network with our subject matter experts to explore how artificial intelligence is transforming work, education, and productivity –…
Reimagining AI efficiency from GPU kernels to context engineering to power Copilot-scale intelligence.
The mission of the Copilot Tuning Research and Applied Science teams is to ensure that AI can be easily adapted and tuned to enable critical, high-value applications, including entirely new productivity tools. We are creating algorithms, architectures, data, and eval pipelines to adapt LLMs, reasoning…
Our group's mission is to pioneer technologies that power AI and ML workloads with unmatched performance, efficiency, and trust.
Office AI Science builds systems that are leveraged across M365,and especially within Word, Excel, and PowerPoint The Office AI Science team is part of OPG. We build systems that are leveraged across M365 and especially within Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The team’s recent projects have included: PPT Summarization, Audio Overviews (Podcast), SPOCK Eval, Data Pipeline, Natural Language to Office JS, and CUA. PPT Summarization: The Office AI Science team built the first fine-tuned…
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