Microsoft wants to tap AI to accelerate scientific discovery

Can AI speed up aspects of the scientific process? Microsoft appears to think so. At the company's Build 2025 conference on Monday, Microsoft announced Microsoft Discovery, a platform that taps agentic AI to "transform the [scientific] discovery process," according to a press release provided to TechCrunch. Microsoft Discovery is "extensible," Microsoft says, and can handle certain science-related workloads "end-to-end." "Microsoft Discovery is an enterprise agentic platform that helps accelerat