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MicrosoftOffloaded inference for real-world physical AI roboticsAt a glance Challenges a core assumption in robotics AI: Our research shows that running physical AI inference exclusively on onboard GPUs can limit robot performance, battery life, and scalability, and that offloading inference…Microsoft Research
MicrosoftYour architecture diagram is not your resilienceThis first article in our resilience series draws on a conversation with Mark Russinovich about how resilience is changing in the AI era and what it takes to continuously validate it at scale.Microsoft Azure blog
MicrosoftDesigning agent-first platforms: What changes when agents do the workFor decades, applications have been designed to wait. A user clicks, a request arrives, code runs, a response goes back. And we got very good at this.Microsoft Azure blog
MicrosoftGPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna: For production agents in Microsoft FoundryToday, we are expanding our GPT-6 series by welcoming GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna to our generally available lineup in Microsoft Foundry .Microsoft Azure blogMicrosoftClaude Opus 5.5 comes to Microsoft Foundry for long-running coding and knowledge workAI models are increasingly taking on work that extends far beyond a single prompt: building a feature across a codebase, investigating a complex issue, synthesizing hundreds of pages of information, or working through a…Microsoft Azure blogAWSAWS Security Hub AI Inventory adds Azure self-hosted instance supportAWS Security Hub AI Inventory now supports discovering and cataloging AI assets running on self-hosted instances in Microsoft Azure.AWS What's New
MicrosoftImproving synthesis prediction of small molecules at scale with RetroChimeraAt a glance We report on the recent publication of our retrosynthesis model RetroChimera in the journal Nature (opens in new tab) .Microsoft Research
MicrosoftThe Economics of Agent Optimization: How AI agent governance controls cost and proves ROIThis blog post is the fourth and final installment of The Economics of Agent Optimization , which shares the strategies, capabilities, and proof points that can help you optimize agent costs and run AI as a managed investment…Microsoft Azure blog
MicrosoftGigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash: Toward population-scale discovery with efficient pathology foundation modelsAt a glance The Flash family extends GigaPath and GigaTIME with dramatically improved efficiency, making large-scale pathology research more accessible and practical.Microsoft Research
MicrosoftMindTopo reveals VLMs’ spatial reasoning abilitiesAt a glance MindTopo is a new benchmark for testing topological reasoning in AI, evaluating whether multimodal models can understand concepts such as connectivity, enclosure, order, separation, and knots.Microsoft Research