Technology for Emerging Markets
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Against Softmaxing Culture: Understanding Relational Practices in Expert and Ordinary Forms of Work
What can human-AI interaction research learn from the practices of fundi wa simu (phone repair technicians)? In this talk, Daniel will show how everyday practices of collaboration and exchange are structured by multiple and overlapping…
Career Opportunity
Sr Principal Researcher – AI Frontiers
Microsoft Research (MSR) AI Frontiers lab is seeking a Sr. Principal Researcher – Generative AI to join our team and lead efforts on the advancement of Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) technologies. As a…
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Extending ClimaX for Flood Forecasting
This video showcases the innovative work by the Microsoft Research Africa, Nairobi team on improving flood forecasting in Rwanda. By enhancing the ClimaX model, a transformer-based weather and climate model, the team aims to predict…
Microsoft Research Blog
Research Focus: Week of May 7, 2025
In this issue: New research on compound AI systems and causal verification of the Confidential Consortium Framework; release of Phi-4-reasoning; enriching tabular data with semantic structure, and more.
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AI for Africa’s Future: Innovation, Equity, and Impact
This was the third grand seminar was hosted by Microsoft Research Africa, Nairobi together with the Microsoft AI for Good team in April 2025 bringing together practitioners from academia, and industry to discuss how we…
Publication
Local Prompt Optimization
Project
African Health Stories
Leveraging generative AI to create interactive visual, oral and text stories to guide people living with Type II Diabetes on lifestyle changes
Project
Project Gecko
As generative AI transforms productivity and access to knowledge, its benefits must extend beyond English-speaking and Western-centric contexts. Historically, each industrial revolution has introduced equity gaps profoundly impacting societal divides. In this fourth industrial revolution…