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Uses learned simulators and generative models to shift the speed–accuracy frontier, then enters R&D through Azure, open code and industry partnerships.
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A deployable portfolio of domain generators and learned simulators can materially shorten scientific computation and candidate screening.
Microsoft is building a cloud-deployable portfolio of scientific models for generation, simulation and prediction rather than betting on one universal model.
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Eric HorvitzChief Scientific Officer Microsoft's MAI-DxO, a panel of AI agents that orders tests and revises its diagnosis, is published in Science: 83% on hard NEJM cases against 36% for generalist doctors
Mustafa SuleymanCEO Microsoft's MAI-DxO, a panel of AI agents that orders tests and revises its diagnosis, is published in Science: 83% on hard NEJM cases against 36% for generalist doctors
Nando de FreitasVice President Accel is set to lead a $60M round for Nando de Freitas's Revolution Labs, below the $100M+ reported in September
Hannah GuanAuthor affiliation on a 2026 paper (co-lead author) A machine-learning correction on top of ECMWF's forecasts tops ECMWF's 2025 real-time contest for weather three and four weeks ahead, ahead of six operational forecast centres and 34 teams
Lester MackeyAuthor affiliation on a 2026 paper (corresponding author) A machine-learning correction on top of ECMWF's forecasts tops ECMWF's 2025 real-time contest for weather three and four weeks ahead, ahead of six operational forecast centres and 34 teams
Pang Wei KohMember of Technical Staff Prompteina designs all-atom protein structures from written prompts, and nine of its GM2A designs bind in the lab, the strongest at 107 nM
Furu WeiNow: Distinguished Scientist, Chief Scientist of Microsoft Research Asia · Microsoft Research Asia Microsoft Research's Agensh runs up to 1,024 coding agents with no central coordinator; rebuilding pandoc, the test-pass rate rises from 34% to 55%
Krzysztof MaziarzPrincipal Researcher RetroChimera: organic chemists prefer an ensemble's retrosynthesis predictions to published reactions
Marwin H. S. SeglerSenior Principal Research Manager RetroChimera: organic chemists prefer an ensemble's retrosynthesis predictions to published reactions
Johannes BrandstetterNow: Vice-President of AI for Engineering · Mistral AI CERN and Mistral sign a statement of intent to build one foundation model for collider physics, trained on billions of simulated LHC collisions
Han HuNow: Founder (reported by Bloomberg) · Winverse AI DeepSeek is in talks to lead a seed round for Winverse AI, a robot-AI startup founded by former Tencent scientist Han Hu, Bloomberg reports
Max WellingNow: Founder · CuspAI CuspAI · Series B · $450M
Chenru DuanNow: Founder · Deep Principle Deep Principle · Series A3 · undisclosedThis page compiles what AI4S.fyi has recorded and links each item to its source. It is not a grade of the organization and not its complete history: a blank means the record has not caught up as often as it means nothing happened.