A marine iguana on Fernandina Island. Credit: Amy MacLeod Nearly 14,000 volunteers took part in the citizen science project Iguanas from Above, helping to count endangered Galapagos marine iguanas through an online survey—and in doing so, contributed to the preservation of this unique lizard species. Every aerial image of the iguana colonies captured by drones […]

The Office AI Science team is part of OPG. The team builds systems that are leveraged across M365 and especially within Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The team’s recent projects have included: PPT Summarization, Audio Overviews (Podcast), SPOCK Eval, Data Pipeline, Natural Language to Office JS, and CUA.  PPT Summarization: The Office AI Science team built the first fine-tuned SLM within M365. The fine-tuned Phi-3 Vision SLM improved p95 latency of PPT Visual Summary feature from 13 seconds to 2 seconds, while maintaining quality (opens in new tab) on par with GPT-4o-v. The optimization […]