Rangan Majumder
Vice President
News & features
In the news | WinBuzzer
Microsoft’s New Turing NLG is the Largest Transformer Language Model
Microsoft has developed a Transformer-based language generation model that it describes as the largest ever made. This week, Microsoft AI & Research announced Turing NLG, which is twice the size of its nearest competitor.
In the news | WinBuzzer
Microsoft DeepSpeed with Zero Can Train 100 Billion Parameter AI Models
Microsoft has released a new open-source library called DeepSpeed, which, when combined with its ‘ZeRO’ module can train 100 billion parameter models without using the resources traditionally associated with that.
In the news | ITPro
Microsoft unveils ‘largest ever’ AI natural language model
Microsoft has revealed its largest deep learning language model, the Turing Natural Language Generation (T-NLG), which is claimed to have a record-breaking 17 billion parameters. The T-NLG, according to Microsoft, outperforms the largest deep learning models to date: the University of Washington’s Grover-Mega and Nvidia’s MegatronLM, which…
In the news | VentureBeat
Microsoft trains world’s largest Transformer language model
Microsoft AI & Research today shared what it calls the largest Transformer-based language generation model ever and open-sourced a deep learning library named DeepSpeed to make distributed training of large models easier.
In the news | InfoWorld
Microsoft speeds up PyTorch with DeepSpeed
Microsoft has released DeepSpeed, a new deep learning optimization library for PyTorch, that is designed to reduce memory use and train models with better parallelism on existing hardware.
In the news | Microsoft Azure Blog
Microsoft makes it easier to build popular language representation model BERT at large scale
Today we are announcing the open sourcing of our recipe to pre-train BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) built by the Bing team, including code that works on Azure Machine Learning, so that customers can unlock the power of training custom…
In the news | The AI Blog
As search needs evolve, Microsoft makes AI tools for better search available to researchers and developers
Only a few years ago, web search was simple. Users typed a few words and waded through pages of results. Today, those same users may instead snap a picture on a phone and drop it into a search box or…
In the news | Bing Blogs
Towards More Intelligent Search: Deep Learning for Query Semantics
Deep learning is helping to make Bing’s search results more intelligent. Here’s a peek behind the curtain of how we’re applying some of these techniques.
In the news | The AI Blog
Microsoft is teaching systems to read, answer and even ask questions
Microsoft researchers have already created technology that can do two difficult tasks about as well as a person: identify images and recognize words in a conversation. Now, the company’s leading AI experts are working on systems that can do something…