Microsoft Research

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Microsoft Research

We advance science and technology to benefit humanity.

Our research lens

Microsoft Research conducts fundamental science and technology research across a spectrum of research areas. With labs around the globe we pursue breakthroughs across the computing and AI stack to accelerate discovery across sciences and advance the frontiers of computing and AI to create new foundations for others to build upon.

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What’s new

  • Benchmark overview showing ten spatial reasoning and planning tasks grouped into two rows. The top row, labeled “Reasoning,” includes Maze, Assembly, Bead, Sheep, and Knot. The bottom row, labeled “Planning,” includes Pipe, One Stroke, Swap, Chat Noir, and Untangle. The MindTopo logo and title are centered between the two categories.

  • Diagram of a tool-augmented radiology vision-language model (VLM) workflow. An orchestrator routes a user’s image query to a VLM, which performs image analysis, calls measurement tools to calculate cardiac and thoracic widths and the cardiothoracic ratio (CTR), and returns diagnostic metrics with visual overlays.

  • Three Orchard framework components with benchmark results

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Explore our research

For nearly 35 years, Microsoft Research has shaped the technology people use every day. We have accomplished this through a commitment to hiring the world’s top minds and giving them the autonomy, resources, and support to conduct research in the areas they believe are most important to society and the planet. 

Come work with us!

We work collectively to make Microsoft Research a welcoming and productive space for all researchers. Join us and help change millions of lives for the better. 

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