Microsoft Research

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Manus AI partnered with Microsoft to deploy uncommercialized Research technology
“And that's part of what led us into partnering with Microsoft because both Sid and I from two different angles had some understanding of where Microsoft was, had been working on some pretty unique technology that That hadn't really been, and hasn't really been…”
Reid Hoffman Apr 3, 2025 ▶ 7:29 Reid Hoffman's AI start-up aims to cure cancer | Masters of Scale
20VC Disclosure
Scott: Microsoft Research launched an initiative to eliminate technical debt using AI
“There's a big research initiative. We've started at Microsoft research about a year ago where like the whole mission of the lab is like eliminate tech debt at scale using these new AI tools.”
Kevin Scott Mar 31, 2025 ▶ 38:17 Kevin Scott, CTO @ Microsoft: An Evaluation of Deepseek and How We Underestimate the Chinese · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
ACQUIRED Assertion Supported
Nathan Myhrvold founded Microsoft Research in 1991
“In 91, Nathan Mirvold started Microsoft Research”
Ben Gilbert Apr 22, 2024 ▶ 3:30:08 Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
HOW I BUILT THIS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Von Ahn: Bill Gates spent an hour personally trying to recruit me
“I had been an intern, I had been, like a year and a half before that, I had been an intern at Microsoft. And so I had good ties with Microsoft, and they really wanted to hire me for Microsoft Research. And so that is, you know, Bill Gates spent, I don't know, …”
Luis von Ahn Dec 18, 2023 ▶ 18:45 reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn (2020)
LENNY'S PODCAST Assertion Partly supported
Forsgren: MSR Paper Finds AI Coding Shifts 50% of Time to Reviewing
“There's this wonderful paper out this is the CUPS model. I'll share it with you. A team at MSR did it. It finds that, you know, about 50% of your time now is spent reviewing versus writing.”
Nicole Forsgren Jul 30, 2023 ▶ 52:01 How to measure and improve developer productivity | Nicole Forsgren (Microsoft Research, Github)
LENNY'S PODCAST Assertion Supported
Forsgren: Research Shows AI Speeds Up Specific Tasks by 50%
“Some of my colleagues also did a paper that showed that, you know, you can do certain tasks like build an HTTP server, you know, 50% faster.”
Nicole Forsgren Jul 30, 2023 ▶ 52:20 How to measure and improve developer productivity | Nicole Forsgren (Microsoft Research, Github)
HOW I BUILT THIS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Von Ahn: Bill Gates spent nearly an hour recruiting him to Microsoft
“I had been an intern, I had been, like a year and a half before that, I had been an intern at Microsoft. And so I had good ties with Microsoft, and they really wanted to hire me for Microsoft Research. And so that is, you know, Bill Gates spent, I don't know, …”
Luis von Ahn May 25, 2020 ▶ 18:32 reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn
a16z Assertion Supported
Shum: Microsoft Research Beijing invented ResNet, the most popular vision network
“ResNet now is the most popular deep neural net, ah, in computer vision. Ah, we actually invented in our research lab in Beijing by my students, ah, using 152 layers of neural networks.”
Harry Shum Jan 16, 2020 ▶ 0:43 Explaining AI
a16z Opinion
Levine: Commercial tech innovation has shifted from corporate labs to universities
“If you look at, ah, you know, a lot of, ah, innovation Up till, well, to me, re up until recently came from, like, Bell Labs and IBM and Microsoft Research, and that's where a lot of the new, I would say the new commercial ideas came from folks leaving those a…”
Peter Levine Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 18:14 a16z Podcast | AMPLab, the Power of Open Source, and the Future of Systems Software
a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated
Uncertain<T> reduces GPS road-snapping code from thousands of lines to two
“But what used to take thousands of lines of code now takes two.”
Kathryn McKinley Jul 28, 2017 ▶ 12:55 Kathryn McKinley

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