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Microsoft Research Asia

ACTIVE
Research instituteAI Lab
MSRAMSR AsiaMicrosoft Research China

Microsoft's research lab headquartered in Beijing, founded in 1998; conducts research in artificial intelligence and computer science.

Founded1998China
HQBeijingChina
01 · About

Microsoft Research Asia

Founded 1998 · Beijing, China

Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) is a research laboratory of Microsoft, founded in November 1998 in Beijing (originally as Microsoft Research China). It conducts basic and applied research in artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision and computing systems. Its founding director was Kai-Fu Lee. The lab is part of the global Microsoft Research organization and collaborates with universities and research institutions across the Asia-Pacific region.

  • Kai-Fu Lee

    Founding Director (1998–2000)

    Computer scientist; founding director of Microsoft Research China/Asia from 1998 to 2000. Later founder of Sinovation Ventures.

02 · What they do

Domain of activity

3 areas · 5 technologies · 2 industries
What they do3Areas
  • Language models
  • Multimodal models
  • Computer Vision
How they do it5Technologies
  • NLP
  • Computer vision
  • Foundation Models
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Multimodal AI
Who for2Industries
  • Research & science
  • Software & Technology
03 · Geography

Global presence

HQ Beijing · 3 offices · 3 regions
ChinaAsiaGlobal
04 · Metrics

Scale & funding

founded 1998
1998founded
Privatenot listed
activestatus
06 · Relations

Organizational relations

07 · Classification

Profile & metadata

3 classification · 2 external links

Classification

  • Statusactive
  • Listed onNoprivate
  • Organization typeResearch institute+ AI Lab