Microsoft hosts open house on proposed data center

People gathered at Microsoft’s open house Thursday night in Lowell to learn more about a proposed data center in the area.

Microsoft built Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B to know when to think — and when thinking is a waste of time

B, an open-weight multimodal vision AI model designed to deliver strong math, science, document and UI reasoning with far ...

Microsoft open-sources multimodal reasoning model with 15B parameters

The company mainly trained Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B on open-source data. The data included images and text-based descriptions of the objects depicted in those images. Before it started training the ...
Forbes

Microsoft Donates DocumentDB To Linux Foundation As An Open Source Alternative To MongoDB

Microsoft’s donation of DocumentDB to the Linux Foundation marks a strategic shift in the NoSQL database landscape, creating the first vendor-neutral document database standard that could reshape how ...
Network World

Microsoft abandons data center projects as OpenAI considers its own, hinting at a market shift

Based on the easing of exclusivity by the two companies, analysts say these moves aren’t surprising, but they do have broader market implications. OpenAI is reportedly contemplating building its own ...
InfoWorld

MarkItDown: Microsoft’s open-source tool for Markdown conversion

The rapid evolution of generative AI has created a pressing need for tools that can efficiently prepare diverse data sources for large language models (LLMs). Transforming information that is encoded ...