Microsoft Discovery: Advancing agentic R&D at scale — expanded preview access

AI Impact Summary

Microsoft is expanding preview access to Microsoft Discovery, an agentic AI platform designed to accelerate R&D processes. The platform leverages reasoning models, agentic orchestration, and high-performance computing to enable autonomous agent teams to perform research and engineering tasks, mirroring the scientific method. This represents a significant shift in R&D tooling, moving beyond incremental AI improvements to a more fundamental transformation of how complex scientific discovery is approached.