Today, Microsoft acquired The Marsden Group, a leader in industrial technology innovation and rapid prototyping, for an undisclosed amount. Microsoft's acquisition is to help customers build more quickly vertical solutions using Microsoft Azure cloud, edge-computing, and AI services, in particular. ... Read more
Microsoft has launched a new hardware and software platform called Azure percept in the public preview today. The latest offering makes it easier for customers to develop and implement AI solutions for scenarios such as anomaly detections, object detection, shelf analytics, and more.
The Microsoft Research Team has developed a new AI that will automatically analyze people's expressions during video meetings. Indeed, the Microsoft Teams bot reads the non-verbal cues of the meeting participants and dynamically spotlights the most expressive ones.
Microsoft has launched a new language system that should help to improve the search experience in Bing. The tool is called Speller100, and it leverages several AI models to correct spelling in over 100 languages to make the search engine more inclusive and efficient for its users worldwide.
Microsoft has filed a new patent for developing an intelligent system that uses data generated by people to create chatbots of real or deceased people. It appears that the AI-powered chatbots will analyze voice data, electronic messages, social media posts, images, and other personal information to emulate people.
Microsoft appears to be re-entering the automotive market in a significantly greater capacity than it has been previously. A few years back, Microsoft seemingly slunk away from the automotive infotainment wars as Apple and Google staked their claims for center ... Read more
Microsoft announced today that it has developed a new image captioning system that can generate captions for images automatically.
Microsoft's new AI will be working overtime to correctly match black faces with new stories that surface, the question is, how often will it be successful?
. The cloud-based machine, which is designed to train massive distributed AI models, has been built in collaboration with OpenAI as a part of Microsoft's multiyear partnership with the San Francisco-based company.
Microsoft in collaboration with Intel has announced a new tool that uses deep learning to find and classify malware with high accuracy.
Microsoft has teamed up with ModuleQ, the personal data fusion AI company, to give people personalized news from over 4,500 publishers. Microsoft announced that ModuleQ helps bring detailed news information to Teams in a post on the Microsoft News Blog. ... Read more
A pair of research papers jointly published by Microsoft Research and Peking University purposes a new face swapping AI in addition to a new facial forgery detector.
Microsoft's Seeing AI iOS app now supports 5 new languages, including Dutch, French, German, Japanese, and Spanish. The Microsoft Seeing AI iOS app helps people with disabilities visualize the world around them by using audio cues. As noted in a ... Read more
Shortly after winning the highly publicized Department of Defense JEDI contract, Microsoft is now sending representatives to meet with the Pentagon officials, according to reports from Bloomberg. Specifically, Microsoft representatives started meeting with Pentagon officials as early as today, November ... Read more
Harry Shum, the Executive Vice President of AI and research who has been with Microsoft for 23 years, is taking a departure from the company.
Cortana integration is officially rolling out to the Outlook Mobile app for iOS users.
Microsoft has just announced their new service, Project Cortex, for enterprises to help them organize their corporate data. The service uses the power of artificial intelligence to analyze the data within documents, and organize them into shared topics such as team projects.
Microsoft is working on an interesting new app for new drivers looking to obtain a drivers license in India.
Microsoft is partnering with Novartis, as Switzerland based pharmaceutical company, to use use artificial intelligence to improve drug discovery.
Microsoft's Data Dignity efforts could, at the very least, give its users some context around how their data is being collected and who is trafficking in it.
AT&T and Microsoft have announced a new multiyear alliance, sharing and applying their cloud, AI, 5G technologies to improve the way people work.