Microsoft Research publishes work on BitNet, a 1-bit LLM architecture enabling 100B-parameter models to run on CPUs with 82% lower energy use.

Publication of a technical guide for deploying Azure ML workspace using Terraform, promoting infrastructure-as-code for MLOps.

Microsoft announces Copilot AI agents as virtual employees

Released MAI-Transcribe-1 speech-to-text model and made MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-Image-2 models publicly available.

Will open a new Microsoft Research AI Lab in Tokyo focused on foundational AI R&D

Pledges to provide AI skills training to 3 million Japanese workers over three years