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In the news | Autonomous Systems and Robotics Group Article
Introducing ClimaX: The first foundation model for weather and climate
We are announcing ClimaX, a flexible and generalizable deep learning model for weather and climate science. ClimaX is trained using several heterogeneous datasets spanning many weather variables at multiple spatio-temporal resolutions. We show that such a foundational model can be…
In the news | Autonomous Systems and Robotics Group Article
Open sourcing PDEArena
We are open sourcing PDEArena, a modern, scalable, and easy to use PDE surrogate benchmarking framework. PDEArena is designed to train and evaluate neural surrogates for partial differential equations (PDE) at scale. As such, PDEArena contains state of the art…
In the news | Tagesspiegel Background Digitalisierung und AI
Porträt von Frank Noé
Im Rahmen des Microsoft-Forschungsprogramms „AI4Science“ arbeitet ein globales Team an Standorten in Europa, Asien und den USA an der Frage, was Methoden des maschinellen Lernens zur Lösung naturwissenschaftlicher Probleme beitragen können. Seit Anfang Oktober gibt es auch in Berlin ein Lab. Geleitet…

Research Focus: Week of October 24, 2022
Welcome to Research Focus, a new series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. Microsoft is thrilled to announce the 2022 Microsoft Research Global PhD Fellows…
In the news | HOW AI HAPPENS Podcast
Microsoft’s AI for Science Senior Director Bonnie Kruft
Dr. Bonnie Kruft currently serves as the Senior Director at Microsoft’s AI for Science, and in our conversation, we cover everything from quantum chemistry to data science. Tuning in you’ll hear Dr. Kruft unpack how she went from earning a…

Research Focus: Week of September 26, 2022
Research Focus highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft.
In the news | KI and Digitization-Newsletter from Tagesspiegel
KI: Microsoft eröffnet Research Lab in Berlin
Microsoft verstärkt seine Forschungsaktivitäten im Bereich Künstliche Intelligenz und eröffnet dazu ein Research Lab in Berlin. Geleitet wird es von Frank Noé, der bislang als Professor für Mathematische Modellierung in den Biowissenschaften am Fachbereich Mathematik & Informatik der Freien Universität Berlin tätig…
In the news | Microsoft Germany News Center
Naturwissenschaftliche Durchbrüche mit Deep Learning: Microsoft eröffnet Research Lab in Berlin
Deep Learning wird in der kommenden Dekade einen transformierenden Einfluss auf die Naturwissenschaften haben. Die Technologie wird die Fähigkeiten zur Modellierung und Vorhersage natürlicher Phänomene drastisch verbessern. Mit Emulatoren werden molekülgetreue Modellierungen komplexer Systeme in künstlichen neuronalen Netzen möglich, die…
In the news | IEEE Spectrum
Supercomputer Emulator: AI’s New Role in Science
Microsoft’s head of AI4Science sees machine learning partially supplanting simulation. Artificial intelligence has become an indispensable tool in many scientists’ lives, such that its use by researchers now has its own moniker—AI4Science—used by conferences and laboratories. Last month, Microsoft announced its own…