2026-02-20
Project Silica introduces new techniques for encoding data in borosilicate glass, as described in the journal Nature. These advances lower media cost and simplify writing and reading systems while supporting 10,000-year data preservation: https://www.microsoft.com/... [image]
Gizmodo
Microsoft's Project Silica team details its laser-modified glass storage tech, saying tests suggest that it can preserve large amounts of data for 10,000+ years
2026-02-19
Project Silica introduces new techniques for encoding data in borosilicate glass, as described in the journal Nature. These advances lower media cost and simplify writing and reading systems while supporting 10,000-year data preservation: https://www.microsoft.com/... [image]
Gizmodo
Microsoft's Project Silica team details its laser-modified glass storage tech, saying tests suggest that it can preserve large amounts of data for 10,000+ years
“This will change the way we think about keeping data and archival preservation.” — Our knowledge of the past comes from stone tablets and old parchment.
2025-11-06
AI agents are transforming digital marketplaces, mediating discovery and transactions between consumers and businesses. The new Magentic Marketplace provides an open-source, extensible simulation environment for studying different agentic market designs: https://www.microsoft.com/... [video]
TechCrunch
Microsoft releases a simulated marketplace for testing AI agents alongside research showing businesses can manipulate agents into buying their products and more
On Wednesday, researchers at Microsoft released a new simulation environment designed to test AI agents, along with new research showing …
2025-02-20
Nature published Microsoft research detailing our WHAM, an AI model that generates video game visuals & controller actions. We're releasing the model weights, sample data & WHAM Demonstrator on Azure AI Foundry to enable researchers to build on this work. https://www.microsoft.com/... [image]
The Verge
Microsoft announces Muse AI, a first-of-its-kind generative AI model that can generate a game environment based on visuals, players' controller actions, or both
Maybe Microsoft should spend more time figuring out how to quit screwing over their successful studios … X: @xboxwire : Introducing Muse, a new kind of generative AI model that let...
2025-02-19
Nature published Microsoft research detailing our WHAM, an AI model that generates video game visuals & controller actions. We're releasing the model weights, sample data & WHAM Demonstrator on Azure AI Foundry to enable researchers to build on this work. https://www.microsoft.com/... [image]
The Verge
Microsoft announces Muse AI, a first-of-its-kind generative AI model that can generate a game environment based on visuals, players' controller actions, or both
Microsoft Research and Xbox game studio Ninja Theory have partnered to create a new AI model for gaming.
2023-12-13
Today, we share our teams' latest contributions, Phi-2 and promptbase. Phi-2 outperforms other existing small language models, yet it's small enough to run on a laptop or mobile device. https://www.microsoft.com/...
VentureBeat
Microsoft releases Phi-2, an AI language model the company says outperforms Mistral and Llama 2 at 7B and 13B parameters and is small enough to run on a phone
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat :
2021-05-26
From conversation to code: First Microsoft customer product features powered by GPT-3 and @Azure translate natural language commands in @MSPowerPlat into PowerFx formulas: https://blogs.microsoft.com/ ...
TechCrunch
Microsoft, an investor in OpenAI, says it's now using the GPT-3 model in its low-code Power Apps service to translate natural language text into code
From conversation to code: First Microsoft customer product features powered by GPT-3 and @Azure translate natural language commands in @MSPowerPlat into PowerFx formulas: https://blogs.microsoft.com/ ...
VentureBeat
Microsoft debuts Microsoft 365 updates, including tools for developers to integrate deeper into Teams, Graph updates, and Outlook message extensions on the web
Microsoft today announced a number of improvements across Microsoft 365, its line of subscription services offered as a part of Microsoft Office.
2020-10-13
With images collected from people who are blind or have low vision, the #VizWiz dataset developed by @UTAustin researcher @DrDannaG is helping train computer vision algorithms to better interpret imperfect photos: https://blogs.microsoft.com/ ... #AIForAccessibility
TechCrunch
Microsoft announces that it is working with several nonprofits and advocacy organizations to make AI systems more inclusive of people with disabilities
AI-based tools like computer vision and voice interfaces have the potential to be life-changing for people with disabilities …
2020-09-15
Microsoft's Project Natick team retrieved the Northern Isles underwater datacenter from the seafloor, with lessons learned for datacenter sustainability strategy around energy, waste and water: https://news.microsoft.com/... https://twitter.com/...
GeekWire
After retrieving a submerged shipping-container-size data center from Scotland's Orkney Islands, deployed in 2018, Microsoft says the project was a success
Two years after deploying a shipping-container-size data center to the depths off Scotland's Orkney Islands, Microsoft has reeled it back in …
2019-11-05
Using Project Silica technology, researchers successfully stored the 1978 ‘Superman’ movie on glass — using femtosecond lasers to encode the data and machine learning to read it back: https://news.microsoft.com/... #MSIgnite
Microsoft
Microsoft teams up with Warner Bros to store and retrieve the 1978 movie Superman on a piece of glass as a proof of concept test for Project Silica research
Microsoft and Warner Bros. have collaborated to successfully store and retrieve the entire 1978 iconic “Superman” …
2019-11-01
Road safety is an important issue across the globe. In India, driver license testing is a pressing problem. See how Microsoft Research's HAMS project enables testing to be an objective & transparent process that helps grant licenses to well-tested drivers: https://news.microsoft.com/...
TechCrunch
Microsoft says authorities in Dehradun, India were able to automate hundreds of driver license tests in recent weeks by using its AI-based project called HAMS
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :