Gagan Bansal
885 posts
@bansalg_
Researcher @msftresearch | Built AutoGen | Previously @uwcse, @iitdelhi
Our new image generator MAI-Image-2 is out! Available now on MAI Playground for everything from lifelike realism to detailed infographics. Our team has been pushing immensely hard for this release, and we are now among the top models out there: #3 family on @arena. Check out the details in our blog: microsoft.ai/news/introduci… It's shipping soon in Copilot and Bing Image Creator, as well as Microsoft Foundry. Really proud of our progress on models and products - stay tuned for new releases and come join us on our Superintelligence mission!
We've reached an agreement to acquire Astral. After we close, OpenAI plans for @astral_sh to join our Codex team, with a continued focus on building great tools and advancing the shared mission of making developers more productive. openai.com/index/openai-t…
We’ve trained a multimodal AI model to turn routine pathology slides into spatial proteomics, with the potential to reduce time and cost while expanding access to cancer care.
BREAKING: Amazon reportedly holds mandatory meeting after “vibe coded” changes trigger major outages.
Vision-language models improve multimodal systems, but can make them slower, costlier, and harder to deploy. Learn how Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B, a compact and fast multimodal reasoning model, blends strengths of different methods while reducing their limits: msft.it/6014Q5X0u
tl;dr: @OpenAI will not be deploying to the NSA or other DoW intelligence agencies for now, so that there's time to address potential surveillance loopholes through the democratic process. Over the weekend it became clear that the original language in the OpenAI / DoW agreement left legitimate questions unanswered, especially around some novel ways that AI could potentially enable legal surveillance. The language is now updated to address this, but I also strongly believe that the world should not have to rely on trust in AI labs or intelligence agencies for their safety and security. Deployment to the NSA and all other DoW intelligence agencies will be withheld so that there is time to address these loopholes through the democratic process before deployment. I know that legislation can sometimes be slow, but I'm afraid of a slippery slope where we become accustomed to circumventing the democratic process for important policy decisions. When there is bipartisan support and urgency, I have faith that government can act quickly. And as AI becomes more powerful, it's more important than ever that ultimate authority be vested in the public. I am also planning to become more personally involved with policy at OpenAI. I think now more than ever it's important for researchers to be in the loop so that policy is informed of the extremely fast progress we are seeing.
Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents. He is a genius with a lot of amazing ideas about the future of very smart agents interacting with each other to do very useful things for people. We expect this will quickly become core to our product offerings. OpenClaw will live in a foundation as an open source project that OpenAI will continue to support. The future is going to be extremely multi-agent and it's important to us to support open source as part of that.
I turned on Meta AI’s auto reply for Facebook Marketplace. I listed an item for $75, and when someone asked if it was available, the AI replied asking if they wanted it for free. I knew Meta’s AI was not great, but I did not expect it to be this bad.
🌻 Announcing New Agents + Economics Research from Microsoft! AI agents are starting to shop and buy for us. At the same time, agents are representing and providing customer support on behalf of businesses. We believe that these two sides will soon collide, and... 1/n
