Microsoft
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Crunchbase, retrieved 2024-05-16| Country | United States |
|---|---|
| Sector | Software & IT Services |
| Website | http://www.microsoft.com |
Between 2015 and 2025, Microsoft researchers released9,900 AI research articles
- #2in PARAT for number of AI research articles
- 91.13citations per AI article on average (#26 in PARAT, #12 in the S&P 500)
- 2,685highly cited articles (#2 in PARAT, #2 in the S&P 500)
- -8.5%growth in Microsoft's public AI research (2020–2023)
- 3,814articles at top AI conferences (#2 in PARAT, #2 in the S&P 500)
- 45.5%of Microsoft's total public research was AI-focused
Microsoft's top AI research topics
Subfield | Articles | Citations per article | Growth (2020–2023) |
|---|---|---|---|
| CV publications | 2672 | 198.2 | -8.84 |
| NLP publications | 2828 | 70 | -9.05 |
| Robotics publications | 259 | 52.5 | -9.18 |
| AI safety publications | 611 | 95 | -10.59 |
| Large language model publications | 2220 | 83.4 | 11.93 |
Between 2015 and 2025, Microsoft filed4,281 AI-related patents
- #7in PARAT for number of AI-related patents filed
- 5.5%growth in Microsoft's AI-related patent filing (2017–2020)
- 2,242AI-related patents were granted to Microsoft (2017–2020)
- 20.6%of Microsoft's filed patents were AI-related
Top AI application areas across Microsoft's filed patents
Subfield | Patents filed | Growth (2017–2020) |
|---|---|---|
| Planning and scheduling patents | 566 | -11.71% |
| Computer vision patents | 513 | 7.24% |
| Knowledge representation patents | 487 | -24.91% |
| Speech processing patents | 383 | -8.26% |
| Language processing patents | 185 | -71.67% |
Top use cases across Microsoft's filed AI patents
Subfield | Patents filed | Growth (2017–2020) |
|---|---|---|
| Personal devices and computing patents | 3007 | 6.67% |
| Telecommunications patents | 960 | -5.57% |
| Business patents | 722 | -13.94% |
| Security patents | 347 | 8.76% |
| Networks patents | 235 | -26.91% |
5,598
AI jobs
According to our data, Microsoft currently employs about 5,598 AI workers (#6 rank in PARAT, #5 in the S&P 500). AI workers in PARAT include anyone a high probability of working with AI. Recent hires may be omitted. Read more >>
108,641
Tech Team 1 jobs
According to our data, Microsoft currently employs about 108,641 Tech Team 1 workers (#5 rank in PARAT, #5 in the S&P 500).Tech Team 1 workers include anyone with technical skills and a reasonable probability of working with AI. Recent hires may be omitted. Read more >>
The AI activity metrics in the Private-Sector AI Indicators dataset are derived from data from Revelio Labs, ETO's Merged Academic Corpus, and other sources. Additional descriptive metadata in PARAT comes from the Crunchbase Open Data Map (powered by Crunchbase) and PermID. Emerging technology topic classifications are based on work supported in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation under Grant No. G-2023-22358. For details on our sourcing, methodology, and limitations, see the tool documentation.