{"id":214319,"date":"2025-05-20T02:06:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T07:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/microsoft-wants-to-tap-ai-to-accelerate-scientific-discovery"},"modified":"2025-05-20T02:06:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T07:06:40","slug":"microsoft-wants-to-tap-ai-to-accelerate-scientific-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/microsoft-wants-to-tap-ai-to-accelerate-scientific-discovery","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft wants to tap AI to accelerate scientific discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-wants-to-tap-ai-to-accelerate-scientific-discovery.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Can AI speed up aspects of the scientific process? Microsoft appears to think so.<\/p>\n<p>At the company\u2019s Build 2025 conference on Monday, Microsoft announced Microsoft Discovery, a platform that taps agentic AI to \u201ctransform the [scientific] discovery process,\u201d according to a press release provided to TechCrunch. Microsoft Discovery is \u201cextensible,\u201d Microsoft says, and can handle certain science-related workloads \u201cend-to-end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMicrosoft Discovery is an enterprise agentic platform that helps accelerate research and discovery by transforming the entire discovery process with agentic AI \u2014 from scientific knowledge reasoning to hypothesis formulation, candidate generation, and simulation and analysis,\u201d explains Microsoft in its release. \u201cThe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can AI speed up aspects of the scientific process? Microsoft appears to think so. At the company\u2019s Build 2025 conference on Monday, Microsoft announced Microsoft Discovery, a platform that taps agentic AI to \u201ctransform the [scientific] discovery process,\u201d according to a press release provided to TechCrunch. Microsoft Discovery is \u201cextensible,\u201d Microsoft says, and can handle [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}