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Microsoft Research
Coverage of Microsoft Research in the Nexus archive.
- Dev proves LLMs will run on anything – even a $10 microcontroller
A developer named SlvDev demonstrated running a TinyStories language model on an ESP32 microcontroller, using techniques like quantization and per-layer-embedding to reduce memory requirements and enable local execution on low-cost hardware.
- Microsoft's Free AI Just Beat OpenAI and Google at Browsing the Web
Microsoft's Fara1.5, a family of open-weight browser agents from Microsoft Research, outperforms OpenAI's Operator and Google's Gemini 2.5 Computer Use on the industry's toughest live-web benchmark.