Inside the brand new AI Co-Innovation Lab at 555 California Street in San Francisco.
Around the world, Microsoft AI Co-innovation Labs supply startups and established corporations 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. Today these labs are accelerating the event of recent merchandise for brand spanking new use circumstances and rising the ecosystem of AI-driven options. Today, 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 improvement instruments. They’re about rapidly making use of rising applied sciences to rising wants with tangible enterprise impacts.
“AI is one of the defining technologies of our time, and Microsoft is committed to empowering every person and organization, whether a large enterprise or startup, to achieve more with AI,” says Christopher Young, Executive Vice President, Business Development, Strategy and Ventures, Microsoft. “It has been incredible to see the pace of development and innovation coming from the Bay Area and we’re looking forward to working with companies of all sizes, across all industries, to bring their AI ideas and projects to life in 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 corporations of all sizes benefit from this new period of AI. Azure OpenAI Service, which turned typically out there earlier this yr, allows corporations 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 neighborhood 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 world platform which helps startups speed up innovation by offering entry to industry-leading AI providers, skilled steering, and the important expertise wanted to scale their firm.
With the speedy adoption of AI and generative AI throughout industries, there are numerous corporations, together with startups, within the Bay Area on the lookout for an open and collaborative area to experiment with AI instruments, and the lab is a spot the place they’ll go to have interaction with a crew of engineers and expertise specialists—and there are quite a few examples of any such experimentation and collaboration in motion in our labs.
Sony Semiconductor Solutions 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, good metropolis, and extra. As a strategic companion 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 place for customers and partners to test minimum-viable products (MVPs) and develop cutting-edge solutions with Sony’s resources and Microsoft’s support,” says Mark Hanson, VP of Technology & Business Innovation and Head of Marketing for System Solution Business Development at SSS-A.
Artificial, an M12 portfolio firm, is a digital platform start-up within the lab orchestration and execution area. They will 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 integration unlocks the flexibility for scientists and non-programmers to make use of pure language as a substitute of needing coding experience to create orchestration strategies that execute scientific laboratory duties corresponding to working many devices in a course of and transferring specimens round a lab to generate outcomes.
“Working with Microsoft, we developed a functional, end-to-end proof of concept for the non-programmers in the lab, which we are now commercializing,” Artificial CEO David Fuller informed me. “For us, the Redmond lab experience rapidly accelerated our vision to orchestrate science using natural language.”
Another lab companion and M12 portfolio firm is Space and Time. The firm provides its clients the flexibility to make use of pure language, quite than advanced SQL queries, to entry Web3 information—which means the info is extra accessible and, finally, 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 capacity to return correct outcomes.
“Before working with Microsoft, we had a 50-60% accuracy rate against our own prompts and expected query results. Now, we hear from our customers that it’s in the order of 80-90% accuracy,” stated Scott Dykstra, Chief Technology Officer at Space and Time. “Working with them also accelerated the delivery of the solution by months.”
The lab areas are so vital as locations for true collaboration and partnership, but in addition as areas for us at Microsoft to get suggestions on learn how to greatest apply our expertise to right-now issues.
So, if you happen to’re in San Francisco and also you’re considering 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 price to take part. All you want is to be an Azure consumer or considering changing into one; an AI use case and marketing strategy; a dedicated engineering crew able to collaborate; and a want to resolve onerous issues with transformative outcomes.
We can work with you on any a part of the stack; we may help join you with different companions; or create a brand new product or refine your go-to-market technique. Together, we’ll develop the AI ecosystem, promote the speedy deployment of extra AI options and study from one another alongside the best way.
It’s simple to use, simply go to: https://aiotlabs.microsoft.com/p/apply/sprint and to study extra about Microsoft Co-Innovation Labs across the world—together with our subsequent one opening in Kobe, Japan, later this yr, go to: https://aiotlabs.microsoft.com/en.