Organization score is the sum of its models
Microsoft
Benefit
+3.38
Harm
−0.26
Net Good
3.11
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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.
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.
Nonconsensual AI images of Taylor Swift go viral after a 4chan generator challenge
In January 2024 sexually explicit AI-generated images of Taylor Swift spread from 4chan and Telegram onto X, where some posts reached tens of millions of views before takedowns; Graphika and 404 Media tied the images to a community challenge against Microsoft Designer and related image tools.