At Build 2025, Microsoft announced the launch of a new scalable platform, Microsoft Discovery, which will enable researchers to reshape the R&D process by using artificial intelligence technology, accelerate the launch of new products in R&D departments across various industries, and enable scientists to conduct various research explorations faster and more comprehensively.
The Microsoft Discovery platform can transform traditional R&D processes through agent-based artificial intelligence. Through specialized artificial intelligence agent services and a graphical knowledge engine, it helps researchers accelerate innovation and improve accuracy in stages such as knowledge reasoning, hypothesis building, simulation experiments, and iterative learning.
The core concept of Microsoft Discovery is to enable researchers to collaborate with a team of specialized artificial intelligence agents that can understand and execute natural language commands and have the ability to continuously learn and adapt. In this way, the research process will shift from a traditional linear model to a continuous, iterative cycle, thereby improving R&D efficiency and the accuracy of research results.
The platform's graphical knowledge engine can establish and analyze complex relationship networks between proprietary data and external scientific research, enabling researchers to gain a deep understanding of different theories, experimental results, and the hypotheses behind them, and promote interdisciplinary knowledge integration and innovation.
Practical Application: Accelerating Data Center Coolant R&D
Using Microsoft Discovery, a Microsoft internal research team developed a promising new coolant prototype for immersion cooling in data centers in just 200 hours. This achievement demonstrates the potential of the Microsoft Discovery platform to shorten R&D cycles, reduce costs, and promote sustainable development.
Openness and integration: Support for multiple tools and models
Built on the Azure platform, Microsoft Discovery is highly scalable and integrated. Researchers can seamlessly integrate their own models, tools, and datasets, as well as solutions from partners and the open source community, into the Microsoft Discovery platform.
In addition, the Microsoft Discovery platform also emphasizes trust, compliance, and transparency, while also providing complete data governance to ensure that the research process can innovate in a responsible manner.
Collaboration and co-creation: Promoting R&D innovation across industries
Microsoft has already collaborated with several corporate clients in fields such as chemical materials, semiconductor design, energy, manufacturing, and pharmaceuticals, using the Microsoft Discovery platform to accelerate R&D and promote technological innovation, thereby gaining a competitive advantage in the market.
The launch of the Microsoft Discovery platform marks a new era in the application of agent-based artificial intelligence in research and development. By combining specialized artificial intelligence agents with graphical knowledge engines, researchers will be able to explore the unknown more efficiently and drive continuous progress in science and technology.
