We have a Principal ML Engineer role opening at MSR Montreal. Come and do research with us :) jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/…

From AI Frontiers, Yadong++ have released Omniparser (microsoft.github.io/OmniParser/) which parses screens better than vision models. The code is open source and the model is on hugging face huggingface.co/microsoft/Omni… .

The ML team at Microsoft Research Montréal 🍁 is hiring a Senior Researcher with a background in ML / NLP!!! Come work with us at the intersection of interactivity, modularity and reasoning in foundation models 😊 MSR is a highly collaborative environment where risky ideas are

On April 17, Mila and Techaide are co-hosting another edition of their one-day AI research conference to benefit Centraide du Grand Montréal and support their fight against poverty and social exclusion. Buy your tickets now: mila.quebec/en/event/mila-…

🚀 We’re thrilled to announce that Sara Hooker (Sara Hooker) will be a keynote speaker at the 2025 Mila Techaide AI Conference on April 17! Secure your spot today: mila.quebec/en/event/mila-…

🎤 We’re honored to welcome Kyunghyun Cho as a keynote speaker at the 2025 Mila Techaide AI Conference! He is a Professor at NYU and an Executive Director of Frontier Research at the Prescient Design team within gRED. Join us on April 17! ow.ly/AKcf50VfU7j

David Ifeoluwa Adelani (David Ifeoluwa Adelani 🇳🇬) will be a keynote speaker at the 2025 Mila Techaide AI Conference on April 17! He is an Assistant Professor at McGill University, a Core Academic Member at Mila and a Canada CIFAR AI Chair holder. Get your tickets now! ow.ly/GZlJ50VfV6w

Imagine AI doing science: reading papers, generating ideas, designing and running experiments, analyzing results… How many more discoveries can we reveal? 🧐 Meet CodeScientist, a promising next step toward autonomous scientific discovery. 🧵

Why attend the Mila Techaide AI Conference on April 17? 🎙️ Talks by leading AI experts 💡 Networking opportunities ❤️ Support a great cause Buy your ticket here: ow.ly/ypnn50VfXC7

👏 A huge thank you to our co-organizers who made the 2025 Mila Techaide AI Conference possible and to Centraide du Grand Montréal and our generous sponsors for supporting AI research! The event is just days away. Buy your tickets now: ow.ly/41I750VwUJy

Developers spend a lot of time debugging code. Learn how debug-gym can equip AI agents to help, enabling them to set breakpoints, navigate the codebase, and print runtime variable values on demand, so they better understand the code and its execution flow: msft.it/6017qF6RT

🎮 You're exploring your favourite RPG city. The blacksmith greets you, remembers you saved his life recommends a customised weapon upgrade. Build better NPCs that respond naturally, adapt dynamically, and recall your actions.👇aicrowd.com/cpdc2025

The Wordplay Workshop is back! 5th edition with EMNLP in Suzhou this Dec. We're also hosting a competition this time on making more realistic LLM powered NPCs in games! As always come by and chat all things text agents!

Announcing the 5th Wordplay Workshop at EMNLP 2025 (Suzhou, China). We are co-organizing the CPDC Challenge (total prize value USD 20K!!!), the warm-up round is starting now! wordplay-workshop.github.io

Introducing TALES - Text Adventure Learning Environment Suite A benchmark of a few hundred text envs: science experiments and embodied cooking to solving murder mysteries. We test over 30 of the best LLM agents and pinpoint failure modes +how to improve 👨‍💻pip install tale-suite

Every frontier AI system should be grounded in a core commitment: to protect human joy and endeavour. Today, we launch LawZero - LoiZéro, a nonprofit dedicated to advancing safe-by-design AI. lawzero.org

CFP of the Wordplay 2025 (EMNLP) is live! wordplay-workshop.github.io

RAG and in-context learning are the go-to approaches for integrating new knowledge into LLMs, making inference very inefficient We propose instead 𝗞𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗹𝗲𝘀 : lightweight LoRA modules trained offline that can match RAG performance without the drawbacks

Excited to be presenting aka.ms/debug-gym next week at IVADO's Bootcamp: Focusing on the Current State of Agents ivado.ca/en/events/boot…

The IVADO #Bootcamp marked the launch of the Thematic Semester on Autonomous #LLM Agents last week at Université de Montréal. Over 4 days, researchers, experts, and #AI enthusiasts gathered for conferences, tutorials, and rich discussions, laying the groundwork for our next two workshops.