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Microsoft began validating Nvidia's Vera Rubin NVL72 system
Microsoft paper finds LLMs corrupt ~25% of documents during long editing sessions
Released World-R1 framework for text-to-video alignment with 3D physics using reinforcement learning.
Microsoft releases Playwright MCP server for AI web agent interaction using accessibility tree
Released TRELLIS.2, a 4B parameter open-source 3D generation model
Microsoft lays off 9,000 employees to fund AI compute and model development
Released the 'Caveman' tool, claiming it can reduce AI inference costs by up to 75%.
Open-source 'Claude Code' development setup replicating Anthropic engineer's workflow published on GitHub.
Released study analyzing 2,500+ custom instruction files to identify key characteristics of effective AI coding agents
Unnamed Python rewrite project gained 47,000+ stars in 5 hours, breaking platform velocity record
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Microsoft Open-Sources VALL-E 2: A Zero-Shot TTS Model Achieving Human Parity in Speech Naturalness
Mar 30, 20263 Documentation MCP Servers to Install Now: GitMCP, Microsoft Learn, and Grounded Docs
Mar 25, 2026Microsoft Launches Free 'AI Agent Course' for Developers, Covers Design Patterns to Production
Mar 31, 2026Microsoft's Open-Source AI Degree: Democratizing Machine Learning Education
Mar 3, 2026