Microsoft and Microsoft Research introduced environment-probing curation, which gives agent memory curators read-only access to live environments, nearly doubling Copilot benchmark task success and halving inference costs.

Autonomous systems that use large language models to plan, reason, and take actions — including browsing the web, writing code, calling APIs, and completing multi-step tasks with minimal human intervention.

The scientific study and development of artificial intelligence systems, algorithms, and methodologies.