At the company's Build 2025 conference on May 19, Microsoft announced Microsoft Discovery. [Photo/VCG]
SAN FRANCISCO -- At the company's Build 2025 conference on Monday, Microsoft announced Microsoft Discovery, a platform that taps agentic artificial intelligence (AI) to "transform the discovery process".
Microsoft Discovery is "extensible," and can handle certain science-related workloads "end-to-end," according to the company.
"Microsoft Discovery is an enterprise agentic platform that helps accelerate research and discovery by transforming the entire discovery process with agentic AI -- from scientific knowledge reasoning to hypothesis formulation, candidate generation, and simulation and analysis," Microsoft said in the press release.
"The platform enables scientists and researchers to collaborate with a team of specialized AI agents to help drive scientific outcomes with speed, scale, and accuracy using the latest innovations in AI and supercomputing," it added.
The World Internet Conference (WIC) was established as an international organization on July 12, 2022, headquartered in Beijing, China. It was jointly initiated by Global System for Mobile Communication Association (GSMA), National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center of China (CNCERT), China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), Alibaba Group, Tencent, and Zhijiang Lab.