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Catch up on Episode 5
Aired February 25, 2025
In episode 5, we discussed how precision health, multimodal AI agents, and innovative chemical synthesis models are advancing clinical care, agents, and drug discovery. Speakers also explored the latest techniques for ensuring memory safety, fixing programming errors, and empowering the next generation of agentic AI.
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Keynote: Multimodal Generative AI for Precision Health
Hoifung Poon, Microsoft Health Futures
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AI for Precision Health: Learning the language of nature and patients
Hoifung Poon, Microsoft Health Futures; Lili Qiu, Microsoft Research Asia; Ava Amini, Microsoft Research New England; Carlo Bifulco, Providence Health; Matthew Lungren, Microsoft Health and Life Sciences
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Chimera: Accurate retrosynthesis prediction by ensembling models with diverse inductive biases
Marwin Segler, Microsoft Research AI for Science
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Magma: A foundation model for multimodal AI Agents
Jianwei Yang, Microsoft Research Redmond
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Belief state transformers
John Langford, Microsoft Research AI Frontiers
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AutoGen v0.4: Reimagining the foundation of agentic AI for scale, extensibility, and robustness
Gagan Bansal, Microsoft Research AI Frontiers
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Using LLMs for safe low-level programming
Pantazis Deligiannis and Aseem Rastogi, Microsoft Research FoSSE

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