Microsoft AI
This page provides you with useful background on Microsoft AI, our approach, our newest tools and features, the latest news and more.
Our AI mission: Microsoft’s advancements in AI are grounded in our company’s mission to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more — from helping people be more productive to solving society’s most pressing challenges. We’re committed to making the promise of AI real and responsibly developing and democratizing this technology as a platform so people can use, build upon, and benefit from AI innovation.
“The age of AI is upon us, and Microsoft is powering it. We are witnessing nonlinear improvements in the capability of foundation models, which we are making available as platforms.” – Satya Nadella
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AI research How Microsoft Research is advancing the state of the art in AI
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Azure: Our AI platform How Azure is powering the future of AI
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Building responsibly How Microsoft approaches responsible AI and societal impact
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AI explained Hear about the latest topics in AI and our unique approach
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AI in action How our customers are taking advantage of AI
Our latest tools and features
Microsoft 365 Copilot
Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot — your copilot for work. Click the image to learn more.
GitHub Copilot X
Your AI pair programmer, upgraded. Click the image to learn more.
AI-powered Bing and Edge
Reinventing search with a new AI-powered Bing and Edge, your copilot for the web. Click the image to learn more.
Microsoft AI explained
What’s new
Check out the latest news and updates from Microsoft AI
March
- Microsoft introduces Microsoft Security Copilot
- GitHub introduces GitHub Copilot X
- Bing Image Creator comes to the new Bing
- Azure OpenAI Service adds GPT-4
- Nuance introduces DAX Express, AI-automated clinical documentation application
- Microsoft open-sources Semantic Kernel for adding LLMs to apps
- Microsoft introduces Copilot for Power Platform
- Microsoft introduces Microsoft 365 Copilot
- LinkedIn adds new AI-powered capabilities
- Microsoft announces ND H100 v5 VM, powerful new virtual machines and outlines AI infrastructure efforts
- Azure OpenAI Service adds ChatGPT capabilities
- Florence comes to Azure Cognitive Services for Vision
- Microsoft introduces Dynamics 365 Copilot
- LinkedIn introduces collaborative articles
February
- Windows 11 updates bring AI-powered Bing to the taskbar
- Microsoft announces Bing momentum and Skype Copilot
- Microsoft announces the new Bing and Edge
- Microsoft boosts Viva Sales with new GPT seller experience
- Teams Premium with GPT becomes generally available
January
Previous Microsoft AI milestones
Microsoft announces DALL∙E 2 in Azure OpenAI Service, new Designer app and Bing Image Creator
October 2022
Microsoft announces AI4Science to empower the fifth paradigm of scientific discovery
July 2022
Microsoft releases our second version of the Responsible AI Standard framework for building AI systems responsibly
June 2022
GitHub Copilot becomes generally available
June 2022
Microsoft expands access to Azure OpenAI Service with more models and new responsible AI system
May 2022
Microsoft introduces Azure OpenAI Service
November 2021
GitHub launches Copilot, an AI pair programmer that takes advantage of the OpenAI Codex model to support developers
June 2021
Microsoft introduces its first product features powered by GPT-3 models
May 2021
Microsoft announces AI breakthroughs in image captioning available in Azure, Word, Outlook and PowerPoint
October 2020
Microsoft teams up with OpenAI to exclusively license GPT-3 models
September 2020
Microsoft announces its first AI supercomputers, built in collaboration with and exclusively for OpenAI
May 2020
Microsoft announces Turing-NLG language model at 17 billion parameters
February 2020
Microsoft launches new AI for Good program and AI for Health to accelerate global health initiatives
January 2020
Microsoft and OpenAI announce exclusive partnership to accelerate breakthroughs in AI
July 2019
Microsoft creates our Office of Responsible AI to coordinate responsible AI governance, and launches the first version of our Responsible AI Standard, a framework for translating our high-level principles into actionable guidance for our engineering teams.
July 2019
Microsoft integrates neural machine translation research breakthroughs into Azure and achieves benchmarks in general language understanding
June 2019
Microsoft announces AI for Humanitarian Action as part of the AI for Good program
November 2018
Microsoft reaches benchmarks in machine translation
March 2018
Microsoft outlines and adopts AI principles
February 2018
Microsoft achieves benchmarks in reading comprehension
January 2018
Microsoft announces AI for Earth to put AI to work for the future of our planet
July 2017
Launched our Aether Committee with researchers, engineers and policy experts to focus on responsible AI issues
June 2017
Microsoft achieves benchmarks in conversational speech recognition
September 2016
Satya Nadella’s The Partnership of the Future essay outlines Microsoft’s principles and goals for AI and responsibility
June 2016
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This page was last updated on April 11, 2023, please continue to check back for updates as our AI mission and products evolve.