Inside the brand new AI Co-Innovation Lab at 555 California Avenue in San Francisco.
Around the globe, Microsoft AI Co-innovation Labs provide startups and established firms alike a spot to collaborate and construct, develop, prototype, and take a look at new options. We opened our first lab in Redmond in 2017, adopted by labs in Munich, Shanghai, and Montevideo. Right this moment these labs are accelerating the event of latest merchandise for brand spanking new use circumstances and rising the ecosystem of AI-driven options. Right this moment, we’re extraordinarily excited to announce the opening of our fifth lab, in San Francisco.
The labs are a spot to extra deeply perceive and experiment with AI growth instruments. They’re about shortly making use of rising applied sciences to rising wants with tangible enterprise impacts.
“AI is among the defining applied sciences of our time, and Microsoft is dedicated to empowering each individual and group, whether or not a big enterprise or startup, to realize extra with AI,” says Christopher Younger, Govt Vice President, Enterprise Improvement, Technique and Ventures, Microsoft. “It has been unbelievable to see the tempo of growth and innovation coming from the Bay Space and we’re wanting ahead to working with firms of all sizes, throughout all industries, to deliver their AI concepts and tasks to life within the AI Co-Innovation Lab.”
The San Francisco lab is the most recent launch in a sequence of applications and investments from Microsoft that assist firms of all sizes make the most of this new period of AI. Azure OpenAI Service, which turned usually accessible earlier this 12 months, permits firms to use essentially the most superior AI fashions, backed by the distinctive supercomputing and enterprise capabilities of Azure, to innovate in new methods. Microsoft additionally helps the startup group by means of applications like Microsoft for Startups, the place greater than 5,000 AI-first startups are leveraging our platform to advance their improvements and their companies, and the Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub, a worldwide platform which helps startups speed up innovation by offering entry to industry-leading AI providers, professional steerage, and the important expertise wanted to scale their firm.
With the speedy adoption of AI and generative AI throughout industries, there are numerous firms, together with startups, within the Bay Space searching for an open and collaborative house to experiment with AI instruments, and the lab is a spot the place they will go to interact with a staff of engineers and expertise specialists—and there are quite a few examples of the sort of experimentation and collaboration in motion in our labs.
Sony Semiconductor Options Group’s (“SSS”) imaginative and prescient AI platform, AITRIOS™, units out to democratize imaginative and prescient AI by simplifying the method to deploy and scale pc imaginative and prescient and edge sensing options throughout industries together with retail, logistics, sensible metropolis, and extra. As a strategic associate of ours, SSS is concerned in our labs in Tokyo, Shanghai, Munich, and Redmond and is now becoming a member of us within the San Francisco lab.
“The Co-Innovation Labs is a spot for patrons and companions to check minimum-viable merchandise (MVPs) and develop cutting-edge options with Sony’s sources and Microsoft’s help,” says Mark Hanson, VP of Know-how & Enterprise Innovation and Head of Advertising for System Resolution Enterprise Improvement at SSS-A.
Synthetic, an M12 portfolio firm, is a digital platform start-up within the lab orchestration and execution house. They’ll be part of us in San Francisco after finishing a profitable proof of idea within the Redmond lab, the place they used Azure OpenAI Service to combine ChatGPT into their present platform. The combination unlocks the power for scientists and non-programmers to make use of pure language as an alternative of needing coding experience to create orchestration strategies that execute scientific laboratory duties equivalent to working many devices in a course of and shifting specimens round a lab to generate outcomes.
“Working with Microsoft, we developed a useful, end-to-end proof of idea for the non-programmers within the lab, which we are actually commercializing,” Synthetic CEO David Fuller instructed me. “For us, the Redmond lab expertise quickly accelerated our imaginative and prescient to orchestrate science utilizing pure language.”
One other lab associate and M12 portfolio firm is Area and Time. The corporate provides its prospects the power to make use of pure language, moderately than complicated SQL queries, to entry Web3 information—which means the information is extra accessible and, in the end, extra usable. It additionally has a next-generation AI chatbot and labored with us within the lab to combine a vector search database to enhance its chatbot’s capability to return correct outcomes.
“Earlier than working with Microsoft, we had a 50-60% accuracy charge towards our personal prompts and anticipated question outcomes. Now, we hear from our prospects that it’s within the order of 80-90% accuracy,” stated Scott Dykstra, Chief Know-how Officer at Area and Time. “Working with them additionally accelerated the supply of the answer by months.”
The lab areas are so necessary as locations for true collaboration and partnership, but in addition as areas for us at Microsoft to get suggestions on tips on how to finest apply our expertise to right-now issues.
So, in case you’re in San Francisco and also you’re desirous about an environment friendly and compact engagement designed to speed up or in any other case improve what you’re doing—be part of us! There’s no value to take part. All you want is to be an Azure person or desirous about turning into one; an AI use case and marketing strategy; a dedicated engineering staff able to collaborate; and a want to resolve exhausting issues with transformative outcomes.
We are able to work with you on any a part of the stack; we can assist join you with different companions; or create a brand new product or refine your go-to-market technique. Collectively, we’ll develop the AI ecosystem, promote the speedy deployment of extra AI options and be taught from one another alongside the best way.
It’s simple to use, simply go to: https://aiotlabs.microsoft.com/p/apply/dash and to be taught extra about Microsoft Co-Innovation Labs across the world—together with our subsequent one opening in Kobe, Japan, later this 12 months, go to: https://aiotlabs.microsoft.com/en.
