Microsoft just pledged $60 million to the Department of Energy's Genesis Mission, aiming to double U.S. research productivity over the next decade. The commitment provides $40 million in Azure compute, $20 million in engineering services, and launches a hub called SPARK to connect 17 National Laboratories.
Microsoft just introduced Microsoft Discovery at Build 2025, an agentic AI platform built to supercharge scientific research and industrial development. It combines a graph-based reasoning engine with specialized AI agents orchestrated by Copilot to tackle everything from hypotheses to HPC simulations. Microsoft researchers already used it to design a non-PFAS datacenter coolant prototype in roughly 200 hours.
