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Microsoft Research conducts fundamental science and technology research across a spectrum of research areas. With labs around the globe we pursue breakthroughs across the computing and AI stack to accelerate discovery across sciences and advance the frontiers of computing and AI to create new foundations for others to build upon. Research areas Intelligence Artificial intelligence | Search & information retrieval | Human language technologies | Human-computer interaction | Computer vision | Graphics & multimedia | Audio & acoustics Science & society Medical, health & genomics | Economics | Social sciences | Technology for emerging markets | Ecology & environment Systems Security, privacy & cryptography | Systems & networking | Data platforms and analytics | Programming languages & software engineering | Hardware & devices | Quantum computing | Algorithms | Mathematics Artificial intelligence | Search & information retrieval | Human language technologies | Human-computer interaction | Computer vision | Graphics & multimedia | Audio & acoustics Medical, health & genomics | Economics | Social sciences | Technology for emerging markets | Ecology & environment Security, privacy & cryptography | Systems & networking | Data platforms and analytics | Programming languages & software engineering | Hardware & devices | Quantum computing | Algorithms | Mathematics Agent Lightning v1.0: A 3,500-Line Lightweight Agentic RL Framework for Training Agents with Real Harnesses October 7, 2026