Microsoft Discovery is a cloud-based enterprise platform that uses agentic AI — software that can plan and independently execute multi-step research tasks without constant human input — to accelerate research and development (R&D). Announced at Microsoft Build 2025 and now in expanded preview, it combines specialized AI agents, a graph-based knowledge engine, and high-performance computing (HPC — large-scale cloud server clusters for compute-intensive simulations) on Azure. The platform targets organizations in chemistry, pharmaceuticals, materials science, semiconductor design, and general engineering. You interact with it through a conversational interface orchestrated by Microsoft Copilot. General availability has not been announced.
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