Organization score is the sum of its models
Microsoft
Benefit
+3.38
Harm
0.00
Net Good
3.38
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Materials Science1.74
Climate & Environment1.64
Events
Benefit21 May 2025
Aurora foundation model beats several operational Earth-system forecasts in retrospective tests
Microsoft’s Aurora, published in Nature on 21 May 2025, was pretrained on more than one million hours of geophysical data and outperformed operational baselines on air quality, waves, cyclone tracks, and high-resolution weather in the paper’s tests.
Climate & EnvironmentverifiedTier 3 Major+1.64
Benefit15 Jan 2025
MatterGen generates stable inorganic crystals and one is synthesized
Microsoft’s MatterGen diffusion model, published in Nature in January 2025, more than doubled the rate of stable, unique, novel generated crystals versus prior generative models and reported one synthesized material within 20 percent of a target property.
Materials ScienceverifiedTier 3 Major+1.74
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