December 16, 2024 | Nathan Evans, Alonso Guevara Fernández, and Joshua Bradley

GraphRAG helps advance AI use in complex domains like science. Thanks to enthusiastic adoption and community engagement, we’ve upgraded the pre-release version. Check out the major ergonomic and structural updates in GraphRAG 1.0.

September 10, 2024 | Robert Osazuwa Ness

Medfuzz tests LLMs by breaking benchmark assumptions, exposing vulnerabilities to bolster real-world accuracy.

July 10, 2024 | Darren Edge, Ha Trinh, and Dayenne Souza

Intelligence Toolkit was built to help fight human trafficking and is applicable to a broad range of societal challenges. Learn how Microsoft researchers worked with global experts to develop generative AI tools that could help tackle urgent issues at scale.

December 8, 2022

Microsoft is home to a diverse team of researchers focused on supporting a healthy global society, including finding ways technology can address human rights problems affecting the most vulnerable populations around the world. With a multi-disciplinary background in human-computer interaction, data…

September 23, 2021 | Darren Edge and Jonathan Larson

From the intense shock of the COVID-19 pandemic to the effects of climate change, our global society has never faced greater risk. The Societal Resilience team at Microsoft Research was established in recognition of this risk and tasked with developing open technologies that enable a scalable response in times of crisis. And just…

May 20, 2021 | Peter Lee

The genetic sequence for COVID-19 was first published in January 2020. Before the end of the year, new vaccines—which typically take five to ten years to develop—were approved for emergency use in multiple nations. This astounding achievement is emblematic of…

March 24, 2021 | Carolyn Buractaon, Amber Hoak, David Tittsworth, Neha Shah, and Jonathan Larson

Is innovation another loss due to the global COVID-19 pandemic? Indicators reveal challenges to overcome—as well as opportunities to build on our collective experience gained (opens in new tab) in the last year. Measuring collaboration using network machine learning provides…