Robots have long excelled at repetitive factory tasks, but they have struggled with the messy ambiguity of everyday human ...

Microsoft has introduced a new artificial intelligence model aimed at pushing robots beyond controlled ...

Microsoft has announced Rho-alpha, a new robotics AI model derived from its Phi vision-language series, aimed at helping ...

Microsoft’s Rho-alpha pushes robots beyond assembly lines using language commands, tactile sensing, and heavy simulation ...

Designed to improve robots’ reasoning, the Rho-alpha vision-language-action model marks Microsoft’s offering in the growing field of physical AI.

The Rho-alpha model incorporates sensor modalities such as tactile feedback and is trained with human guidance, says ...

The company is positioning this approach as a turning point for robotics, comparable to what large generative models have done for text and images.

Microsoft Corp. has developed a small language model that can solve certain math problems better than algorithms several times its size. The company revealed the model, Phi-4, on Thursday. The ...

Microsoft improved Bing with new large language models (LLMs) and small language models (SLMs), which the company says helped to reduce latency and cost associated with hosting and running search.

Microsoft Corp. today released the code for Phi-4, a small language model that can generate text and solve math problems. The company first detailed the model last month. Initially, Phi-4 was only ...

In a bid to make artificial intelligence (AI) more applicable, Microsoft has worked with a number of industry platforms to deliver small language models (SLM) to its Azure AI catalogue. The ...