Practice

Agents

From Local to Production: Deploy Your Microsoft Agent Framework Agent with Foundry Hosted Agents

Once you have your Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF) agent or workflow happily running locally on your dev machine, it’s time to decide how to deploy your a…

2026-06-12

Agents

Governance at the Speed of Agents: Microsoft Agent Framework and Agent Governance Toolkit, Better Together

Building powerful AI agents is only half the story, running them safely in production is the real challenge. As customers adopt Microsoft Agent Framework for ag…

2026-06-12

Agents

Stop prompt injection from hijacking your agent, new security capabilities now released within Agent Framework

Prompt injection is the #1 risk on the OWASP LLM Top 10, and most agents in production today defend against it with one of two heuristics: a defensive system pr…

2026-06-12

Agents

ICYMI: Inside the Microsoft Agent Framework: How we designed a layered SDK

In case you missed it, the Command Line blog was launched last week and has a great article (by yours truly) about our SDK design philosophy with Microsoft Agen…

2026-06-12

Research

Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Smoothing: A 100-AV Highway Deployment

Training Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning We deployed 100 reinforcement learning (RL)-controlled cars into rush-hour highway traffic to smooth conge…

2026-06-12

Research

Identifying Interactions at Scale for LLMs

--> Understanding the behavior of complex machine learning systems, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), is a critical challenge in modern artificial inte…

2026-06-12

Research

Notes from inside China's AI labs

Lessons from my trip to talk to most of the leading AI labs in China.…

2026-06-12

Research

Building realistic electric transmission grid dataset at scale: a pipeline from open dataset

Microsoft Research is excited to release an open dataset of approximate transmission topology of the U.S. power grid derived from publicly available data. The a…

2026-06-12

Research

MagenticLite, MagenticBrain, Fara1.5: An agentic experience optimized for small models

MagenticLite is an agentic system for small models that works across the browser and local file system in a single workflow. It combines specialized models and …

2026-06-12

Research

Data Formulator 0.7: AI-powered data analytics for enterprise data

Data Formulator introduces AI-powered analytics for enterprise data workflows. Data teams can easily bring enterprise data into an AI-ready workspace where user…

2026-06-12

Research

TWLA: Achieving Ternary Weights and Low-Bit Activations for LLMs via Post-Training Quantization

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit exceptional general language processing capabilities, but their memory and compute costs hinder deployment. Ternarization h…

2026-06-12

Research

Authority, Truth, and Citation Bias: A Large-Scale Multi-Domain Benchmark for Studying Epistemic Susceptibility in Large Language Models

Large language models are increasingly deployed in citation-augmented settings, yet the effect of citation presence on model behavior independent of factual con…

2026-06-12

Research

MiniPIC: Flexible Position-Independent Caching in <100LOC

Retrieval-augmented and agentic workloads repeatedly prefill recurring predictable structured inputs (which we call "spans") such as documents and code files. Y…

2026-06-12

Research

OR-Action: Multi-Role Video Understanding with Fine-Grained Actions

Fine-grained understanding of operating room (OR) activity could enable workflow-aware assistance, yet remains difficult due to clutter, occlusions, and limited…

2026-06-12

Research

From Passive Generation to Investigation: A Proactive Scientific Peer Review Agent

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in automating scientific peer review. However, existing approaches often struggle to generate in-depth reviews s…

2026-06-12

Research

Uncertainty Estimation for Molecular Diffusion Models

Diffusion models have seen wide adoption for 3D molecular generation, yet they offer no principled signal of when a generated molecule is likely to be of low qu…

2026-06-12

Research

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning from Delayed Marketplace Feedback for Objective-Weight Adaptation in Three-Sided Dispatch

Dispatch in three-sided marketplaces provides a natural setting for reinforcement learning from world feedback: decisions are evaluated by delayed operational o…

2026-06-12

Research

EvoArena: Tracking Memory Evolution for Robust LLM Agents in Dynamic Environments

Large language model (LLM) agents have achieved strong performance on a wide range of benchmarks, yet most evaluations assume static environments. In contrast, …

2026-06-12

Labs

OpenAI announces Frontier Alliance Partners

OpenAI announces Frontier Alliance Partners to help enterprises move from AI pilots to production with secure, scalable agent deployments.…

2026-06-12

Labs

OpenAI Codex and Figma launch seamless code-to-design experience

OpenAI and Figma launch a new Codex integration that connects code and design, enabling teams to move between implementation and the Figma canvas to iterate and…

2026-06-12

Labs

Nano Banana 2: Combining Pro capabilities with lightning-fast speed

Our latest image generation model offers advanced world knowledge, production ready specs, subject consistency and more, all at Flash speed.…

2026-06-12

Labs

OpenAI and Amazon announce strategic partnership

OpenAI and Amazon announce a strategic partnership bringing OpenAI’s Frontier platform to AWS, expanding AI infrastructure, custom models, and enterprise AI age…

2026-06-12

Labs

Our agreement with the Department of War

Details on OpenAI’s contract with the Department of War, outlining safety red lines, legal protections, and how AI systems will be deployed in classified enviro…

2026-06-12

Labs

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Built for intelligence at scale

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is our fastest and most cost-efficient Gemini 3 series model yet.…

2026-06-12

Labs

How Axios uses AI to help deliver high-impact local journalism

Axios COO Allison Murphy explains how the company uses AI to support local reporters, streamline newsroom workflows, and deliver high-impact local journalism at…

2026-06-12

Labs

Introducing the Adoption news channel

Practical insights and frameworks to turn AI progress into business advantage…

2026-06-12

Labs

How Descript engineers multilingual video dubbing at scale

Using OpenAI reasoning models, Descript unlocked automatic localization of large content libraries without losing timing or meaning.…

2026-06-12

Labs

Wayfair boosts catalog accuracy and support speed with OpenAI

Wayfair uses OpenAI models to improve ecommerce support and product catalog accuracy, automating ticket triage and enhancing millions of product attributes at s…

2026-06-12

Labs

How we monitor internal coding agents for misalignment

How OpenAI uses chain-of-thought monitoring to study misalignment in internal coding agents—analyzing real-world deployments to detect risks and strengthen AI s…

2026-06-12

Labs

Accelerating the next phase of AI

OpenAI raises $122 billion in new funding to expand frontier AI globally, invest in next-generation compute, and meet growing demand for ChatGPT, Codex, and ent…

2026-06-12