At a glance AI is driving rapid changes in the workplace, more sharply than those covered in previous editions of the New Future of Work AI is changing how people work together, not just enabling them to work faster or from remote locations. Organizations that treat AI as a collaborative partner are seeing the biggest benefits. The benefits of AI are n...

Behind every emerging technology is a great idea propelling it forward. In the Microsoft Research Podcast series Ideas, members of the research community at Microsoft discuss the beliefs that animate their research, the experiences and thinkers that inform it, and the positive human impact it targets.

Since 2020, researchers across Microsoft ha...

At a glance AI benchmarks report performance on specific tasks but provide limited insight into underlying capabilities; ADeLe evaluates models by scoring both tasks and models across 18 core abilities, enabling direct comparison between task demands and model capabilities. Using these ability scores, the method predicts performance on new tasks with ~88%...

At a glance To successfully complete tasks, embodied AI agents must ground and update their plans based on visual feedback. AsgardBench isolates whether agents can use visual observations to revise their plans as tasks unfold. Spanning 108 controlled task instances across 12 task types, the benchmark requires agents to adapt their plans based on what t...

At a glance VLM-based robot planners struggle with long, complex tasks because natural-language plans can be ambiguous, especially when specifying both actions and locations. GroundedPlanBench evaluates whether models can plan actions and determine where they should occur across diverse, real-world robot scenarios. Video-to-Spatially Grounded Planning ...