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Bring your mood board to life with MAI-Image-2.6. Our latest image model can modify color, style, and visual details while maintaining consistency across iterations. https://t.co/HyHOy8Nt4s

Say how you feel. Get a poem that meets you there. Ode connects you with a poem for your moment. Guided by William Sieghart. Powered by Microsoft AI models. Try it out here: https://t.co/egu88NTf9C ht

Say how you feel. Get a poem that meets you there. Ode connects you with a poem for your moment. Guided by William Sieghart. Powered by Microsoft AI models. Try it out here: https://t.co/egu88NTf9C https://t.co/jQ3qm9sKnz

Thrilled to announce by popular demand MAI-Code-1-Flash is now generally available for GitHub Copilot Business and GitHub Copilot Enterprise - fast, efficient, and custom designed to help you build mo

Thrilled to announce by popular demand MAI-Code-1-Flash is now generally available for GitHub Copilot Business and GitHub Copilot Enterprise - fast, efficient, and custom designed to help you build more for less on @github

We shipped a new coding model built for your everyday dev work. MAI-Code-1-Flash is fast, token-efficient, and trained inside real GitHub Copilot environments. It plans, builds, runs, and tests. All f

We shipped a new coding model built for your everyday dev work. MAI-Code-1-Flash is fast, token-efficient, and trained inside real GitHub Copilot environments. It plans, builds, runs, and tests. All from Copilot Chat in VS Code. Watch it go from a single frost banner to a full

MAI-Image-2.5 ranked #2 for text-to-image and #3 for image editing on @ArtificialAnlys - showing strong performance across both generation and precise image edits. From rainy-window blur to a clear, u

MAI-Image-2.5 ranked #2 for text-to-image and #3 for image editing on @ArtificialAnlys - showing strong performance across both generation and precise image edits. From rainy-window blur to a clear, usable street scene, while preserving object consistency, lighting, https://t.co/q8MFDrr8uB

What happens when speech, transcription, and coding models work together? This prototype demo, built using a VS Code fork, showcases how MAI-Transcribe, MAI-Voice, and MAI-Code-1-Flash can work togeth

What happens when speech, transcription, and coding models work together? This prototype demo, built using a VS Code fork, showcases how MAI-Transcribe, MAI-Voice, and MAI-Code-1-Flash can work together in a unified workflow to transform spoken instructions into working code. https://t.co/z35l4fV2xQ

Behind every model is a team dedicated to solving difficult challenges, exploring new ideas, and continuously pushing technology forward. Meet some of the people behind Microsoft AI. Watch the full vi

Behind every model is a team dedicated to solving difficult challenges, exploring new ideas, and continuously pushing technology forward. Meet some of the people behind Microsoft AI. Watch the full video here: https://t.co/oNxtle7FtO https://t.co/8fsVY6DnFQ

Object-Centric Residual RL for Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real VLA Enhancement

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models can generalize across diverse manipulation tasks, but their imitation-learning-based policies remain brittle in precise physical interactions due to compounding execution errors; Can a reinforcement learning policy trained purely in simulation improve the robustness of real-world VLAs zero-shot? Residual RL, which learns a corrective policy on top of a frozen VLA, offers a natural framework, but existing approaches face a fundamental sim-to-real dilemma: privileged-state methods require lossy distillation for deployment; image-based methods suffer from the visual domain gap; and real-world RL is costly and unsafe. We propose an object-centric residual RL framework that refines VLA actions using object poses, enabling a compact observation space that transfers consistently between simulation and reality. To align the two domains, we additionally replay the same teleoperation demonstrations in simulation to train a sim counterpart of the real-world VLA. The residual RL policy is trained only in simulation with pose noise injection and dropout, and transfers zero-shot to the real robot. Across five manipulation tasks on a real Franka Research 3 (FR3) robot, our method improves the success rate from 42% to 76% zero-shot, and the improved rollouts can be further reused to retrain the base VLA for self-improvement without additional teleoperation. Project page: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/articles/object-centric-residual-rl/