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Visit website →Advancing Materials AI with MatterSim: Experimental Synthesis, High-Speed Simulation, and a Multi-Task Model
MatterSim has unveiled TaP experimental validation, 3-5x speed improvements, and a multi-task model.
SocialReasoning-Bench: Measuring Whether AI Agents Act Most Favorably for Users
Microsoft Research has released a benchmark that measures AI agents' ability to act as user proxies.
A pipeline for building a large-scale realistic transmission grid dataset from public data
MSR built and released a realistic dataset of the US transmission grid using only public data.
Microsoft at NSDI 2026: Advances in Large-Scale Network Systems
Microsoft presented 11 papers on networking, AI, and cloud at NSDI 2026.
AI Agent Network Red Teaming: Vulnerabilities Revealed in Large-Scale Interactions
Interaction vulnerabilities were revealed in a network of over 100 AI agents.
AutoAdapt: Automated Domain Adaptation for Large Language Models
AutoAdapt automates the selection and tuning of RAG and fine-tuning within given constraints.
Can AI Help Build a More Sustainable World?
AI's climate impact requires separating hype from data, while also serving as a solution.
Rapid AI-Driven Shifts in Work, but Benefits Are Uneven
AI is rapidly changing how we work, collaborate on teams, and even the labor market itself.
Ideas: How to steer AI toward the future of work we want
Microsoft researchers examine AI's workplace transformation and discuss designing a fair future.
ADeLe: Predicting and Explaining AI Performance Across Diverse Tasks
It explains LLM performance with 18 ability scores and predicts new task success rates with 88% accuracy.
AsgardBench, a Benchmark for Visually Grounded Interactive Planning
AsgardBench tests embodied AI's ability to revise plans based on image observations.
GroundedPlanBench: Spatially Grounded Long-Horizon Task Planning for Robotic Manipulation
GroundedPlanBench and V2GP, which make VLMs plan actions and locations together, boosted performance.
Will Machines Ever Have Intelligence
It asks whether AI is truly intelligent by examining the differences between LLMs and the brain.
Systematic Debugging for AI Agents: Introducing the AgentRx Framework
AgentRx pinpoints the first fatal error point in failed agent executions.
PlugMem: Turning Raw Agent Interactions into Reusable Knowledge
PlugMem converts agent logs into knowledge units, enabling more accurate recall with fewer tokens.
Phi-4-reasoning-vision and Lessons from Training a Multimodal Reasoning Model
Microsoft has released Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B, a 15B open-weight multimodal reasoning model.
The Shape of Things to Come
Microsoft Research introduces a new podcast series covering the future of AI and its key issues.
CORPGEN Advances AI Agent Technology for Real-World Work Environments
Microsoft has unveiled **CORPGEN**, an AI agent framework capable of performing complex multitasking work.
Practical Application of Media Authentication Methods: Capabilities, Limitations, and Path Forward
Microsoft has released a report on the current state and future direction of Media Integrity and Authenticity (MIA) technology to address the surge in AI-generated media.