Microsoft
Research at Microsoft
Updated Nov 6, 2026 from public research, hiring and model databases. Figures are collected automatically and reflect what each source attributes to Microsoft.
Published research
2,030 papers and preprints with at least one author affiliated with Microsoft in the past 12 months (Nov 6, 2025 – Nov 6, 2026).
| Year | Papers |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 1,290 |
| 2023 | 1,325 |
| 2024 | 1,393 |
| 2025 | 1,486 |
| 2026 (to date) | 1,819 |
Top fields, past 12 months: Computer Science (1350) · Engineering (135) · Medicine (95) · Social Sciences (78) · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (60)
Most-cited recent papers
| Paper | Venue | Published | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| A benchmark of expert-level academic questions to assess AI capabilities | Nature | Jan 28, 2026 | 185 |
| Semantic Image Synthesis via Diffusion Models | IEEE Transactions on Multimedia | Jan 1, 2026 | 170 |
| Performance of a large language model on the reasoning tasks of a physician | Science | Apr 30, 2026 | 141 |
| The Effects of Generative AI on High-Skilled Work: Evidence from Three Field Experiments with Software Developers | Management Science | Feb 27, 2026 | 136 |
| Holistic evaluation of large language models for medical tasks with MedHELM | Nature Medicine | Jan 20, 2026 | 118 |
| Bright: a globally distributed multimodal building damage assessment dataset with very-high-resolution for all-weather disaster response | Earth system science data | Nov 18, 2025 | 89 |
Latest papers
- A mixed-methods evaluation of a language model-powered breast cancer note augmentation tool for patients — Scientific Reports, Nov 5, 2026
- Pipelining the Memory Hierarchy for Ultra-Long-Context Language Model Training — GetMobile Mobile Computing and Communications, Nov 5, 2026
- In the image of their tools — Science, Nov 5, 2026
- Design and Fabrication of mmWave Radar-Based Eye Tracking Smart Glasses — GetMobile Mobile Computing and Communications, Nov 5, 2026
- Smart voices, smarter choices: Integrating information foraging and technology acceptance to examine retrieval efficiency in AI voice assistants — Journal of Information Science, Nov 4, 2026
- Democratizing Optimization with Generative AI — Operations Research, Nov 3, 2026
Source: OpenAlex. Affiliations are matched automatically and can include papers with a mistaken or partial Microsoft affiliation; labs that publish mainly on their own websites or in system cards are undercounted.
Model releases
148 AI models attributed to Microsoft in Epoch AI’s database, 22 of them released in the past 12 months.
| Model | Released | Domain | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAI-Image-2.7 | Oct 27, 2026 | Image generation | Hosted access (no API) |
| MAI-Cyber-1.1-Flash | Oct 27, 2026 | Cybersecurity, Language | Hosted access (no API) |
| MAI-Base-2 | Oct 15, 2026 | Language, Vision, Multimodal | Unreleased |
| MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash | Oct 1, 2026 | Speech | API access |
| MAI-Voice-2.1 | Oct 1, 2026 | Speech | API access |
| MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming | Oct 1, 2026 | Speech, Language, Audio | API access |
| MAI-Image-2.6 | Sep 4, 2026 | Image generation | API access |
| MAI-Image-2.6-Flash | Sep 4, 2026 | Image generation | API access |
| MAI-Transcribe-2 | Sep 3, 2026 | Speech, Language, Audio | API access |
| MAI-Cyber-1-Flash | Aug 13, 2026 | Cybersecurity, Language | Hosted access (no API) |