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
Host conference: (opens in new tab)The Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) (opens in new tab) June 17-21, 2024 Panel speakers: Ashley Llorens, Ade Famoti, Stevie Bathiche, Olivia Norton (Sanctuary AI) Workshop scientific…
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…
Welcome to Research Focus, a series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable performance…
This grand seminar was hosted by Microsoft Research Africa, Nairobi together with the Microsoft AI for Good team in April 2024. It was the second in their grand seminars which brought together people from academia,…
The new series “Ideas” debuts with guest Kalika Bali. The speech and language tech researcher talks sci-fi and its impact on her career, the design thinking philosophy behind her research, and the “outrageous idea” she…