Microsoft
Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Crunchbase, retrieved 2024-05-16| Country | United States |
|---|---|
| Sector | Software & IT Services |
| Website | http://www.microsoft.com |
Between 2013 and 2023, Microsoft researchers released9,807 AI research articles
- #1in PARAT for number of AI research articles
- 64.97citations per AI article on average (#32 in PARAT, #15 in the S&P 500)
- 2,762highly cited articles (#2 in PARAT, #2 in the S&P 500)
- +18.1%growth in Microsoft's public AI research (2018–2021)
- 4,305articles at top AI conferences (#1 in PARAT, #1 in the S&P 500)
- 38.2%of Microsoft's total public research was AI-focused
Microsoft's top AI research topics
Subfield | Articles | Citations per article | Growth (2018–2021) |
|---|---|---|---|
| CV publications | 2736 | 139.1 | 18.56 |
| NLP publications | 2899 | 47.8 | 22.53 |
| Robotics publications | 238 | 41 | 9.83 |
Between 2013 and 2023, Microsoft filed3,728 AI-related patents
- #7in PARAT for number of AI-related patents filed
- 6.4%growth in Microsoft's AI-related patent filing (2017–2020)
- 1,999AI-related patents were granted to Microsoft (2017–2020)
- 15.7%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 | 550 | -11.12% |
| Knowledge representation patents | 468 | -21.66% |
| Computer vision patents | 439 | 7.06% |
| Speech processing patents | 365 | -7.73% |
| Language processing patents | 214 | -71.67% |
Top use cases across Microsoft's filed AI patents
Subfield | Patents filed | Growth (2017–2020) |
|---|---|---|
| Personal devices and computing patents | 2635 | 7.46% |
| Telecommunications patents | 888 | -5.84% |
| Business patents | 711 | -12.47% |
| Security patents | 279 | 8.76% |
| Networks patents | 243 | -19.99% |
5,245
AI jobs
According to our data, Microsoft currently employs about 5,245 AI workers (#6 rank in PARAT, #5 in the S&P500). AI workers in PARAT include anyone a high probability of working with AI. Recent hires may be omitted. Read more >>
104,414
Tech Tier 1 jobs
According to our data, Microsoft currently employs about 104,414 Tech Tier 1 workers (#5 rank in PARAT, #5 in the S&P500).Tech Tier 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, Clarivate Web of Science, and other leading sources. Additional descriptive metadata in PARAT comes from the Crunchbase Open Data Map (powered by Crunchbase) and PermID. For details on our sourcing, methodology, and limitations, see the tool documentation.