May 19, 2020

Microsoft has built one of the top five publicly disclosed supercomputers in the world, making new infrastructure available in Azure to train extremely large artificial intelligence models.

May 19, 2020

We’re excited to share an early look at how we’re using Microsoft Search to make searching within your document easier and more natural.

May 19, 2020

Knowledge workers spend close to 20% of their time searching for and gathering information. When using document management systems such as Microsoft OneDrive and SharePoint people find themselves looking at directories full of documents. Interacting with such a list of documents can be time-consuming without a mechanism for previewing the documents. The Inside Look feature in OneDrive and SharePoint helps people get to relevant documents quickly by providing a short summary of documents as previews.

May 19, 2020

Sending replies to email or chat messages is a common activity and people spend considerable amount of time on it. By harnessing the power of AI, we are helping people reply faster by intelligently suggesting replies which can be used to easily respond to messages with a simple click or tap on the device.

May 19, 2020

Every day, users from all over the world perform hundreds of millions of search queries with Bing in more than 100 languages. Whether this is the first or the millionth time we see a query, whether the best results for a query change every hour or barely change at all, our users expect an immediate answer that serves their needs. Bing web search is truly an example of AI at Scale at Microsoft, showcasing the next generation of AI capabilities and experiences.

February 10, 2020

Turing Natural Language Generation (T-NLG) is a 17 billion parameter language model by Microsoft that outperforms the state of the art on many downstream NLP tasks. We present a demo of the model, including its freeform generation, question answering, and summarization capabilities, to academics for feedback and research purposes. - This summary was generated by the Turing-NLG language model itself.

February 10, 2020

The latest trend in AI is that larger natural language models provide better accuracy; however, larger models are difficult to train because of cost, time, and ease of code integration. Microsoft is releasing an open-source library called DeepSpeed, which vastly advances large model training by improving scale, speed, cost, and usability, unlocking the ability to train 100-billion-parameter models. DeepSpeed is compatible with PyTorch.

Published July 21, 2019

Have you ever wondered what happens when you ask a search engine to search for something as seemingly simple as “how do you grill salmon”? Have you found yourself entering multiple searches before arriving at a webpage with a satisfying answer? Perhaps it was only after finally entering “how to cook salmon on a grill” that you found the webpage you wanted in the first place, leaving you wishing search engines simply had the intelligence to understand that when you entered your initial search, your intent was to cook the salmon on a grill.

Published July 17, 2019

The open sourcing of our recipe to pre-train BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) built by the Bing team, including code that works on Azure Machine Learning, so that customers can unlock the power of training custom versions of BERT-large models using their own data. This will enable developers and data scientists to build their own general-purpose language representation beyond BERT.

Published May 15, 2019

Only a few years ago, web search was simple. Users typed a few words and waded through pages of results. Today, those same users may instead snap a picture on a phone and drop it into a search box or use an intelligent assistant to ask a question without physically touching a device at all. They may also type a question and expect an actual reply, not a list of pages with likely answers. These tasks challenge traditional search engines, which are based around an inverted index system that relies on keyword matches to produce results.

Published May 1, 2018

Deep learning is helping to make Bing’s search results more intelligent. Here’s a peek behind the curtain of how we’re applying some of these techniques.