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Promptions helps make AI prompting more precise with dynamic UI controls
| Sean Rintel, Advait Sarkar, Jack Williams, Nicholas Wilson, Richard Banks, Neeltje Berger, Philipp Steinacher, Payod Panda, and Ian Drosos
Promptions helps developers add dynamic, context-aware controls to chat interfaces so users can guide generative AI responses. It lets users shape outputs quickly without writing long instructions.
Research Focus: Week of May 7, 2025
In this issue: New research on compound AI systems and causal verification of the Confidential Consortium Framework; release of Phi-4-reasoning; enriching tabular data with semantic structure, and more.
The Future of AI in Knowledge Work: Tools for Thought at CHI 2025
| Sean Rintel, Leon Reicherts, Lev Tankelevitch, Advait Sarkar, Pratik Ghosh, and Richard Banks
Join us at CHI 2025 to explore how AI systems can be used as Tools for Thought as we reimage AI’s role in human thinking. Learn about new research, prototypes, and a workshop on designing AI that supports critical thinking,…
Introducing KBLaM: Bringing plug-and-play external knowledge to LLMs
| Taketomo Isazawa, Xi Wang, Liana Mikaelyan, Mathew Salvaris, and James Hensman
Introducing KBLaM, an approach that encodes and stores structured knowledge within an LLM itself. By integrating knowledge without retraining, it offers a scalable alternative to traditional methods.
Introducing Muse: Our first generative AI model designed for gameplay ideation
| Katja Hofmann
Today Nature published Microsoft’s research detailing our WHAM, an AI model that generates video game visuals & controller actions. We are releasing the model weights, sample data, & WHAM Demonstrator on Azure AI Foundry, enabling researchers to build on the…
Research Focus: Week of January 27, 2025
In this issue: A new approach to multimodal pretraining for remote sensing; Managed-retention memory for the AI era; Improving detection of macular telangiectasia type 2; Generalizing symbolic automata.
Research Focus: Week of January 13, 2025
In this edition: Privacy enhancements for multiparty deep learning; using smaller, open-source models to provide relevance judgments; new tool uses AI, data to automate innovation and development; Yasuyuki Matsushita named IEEE 2025 Computer Society Fellow.
Research Focus: Week of October 28, 2024
New Research | FLASH: Workflow automation agent for diagnosing recurring incidents; METAREFLECTION: Learning instructions for language agents using past reflections; Boosting LLM training efficiency through faster communication between GPUs; and more.
Microsoft Research Forum Episode 4: The future of multimodal models, a new “small” language model, and other AI updates
Explore multimodal & small language models, plus advanced benchmarks for AI evaluation. Microsoft researchers are working on breakthroughs in weather prediction, materials design, even a new kind of computer for AI inference and hard optimization problems.