Microsoft Research

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Skala 1.1

Skala 1.1, trained on 2.5x more data than its predecessor, achieves a weighted average error of 2.8 kcal/mol on GMTKN55 and is now available in CP2K with integrations underway for Psi4, FHI-aims, ORCA, and VASP.

Microsoft Research | Breakthroughs | In Edition 48, Saturday 22 Aug 2026

SOURCE Microsoft Research, Broadening access to Skala creates a faster path to predictive DFT

Aurora 1.5

Aurora 1.5 adds 22 new weather variables, hourly temporal resolution, and probabilistic ensemble forecasting, outperforming ECMWF ENS on 88.9% of evaluated variable-and-lead-time targets.

Microsoft Research | Breakthroughs | In Edition 42, Saturday 11 Jul 2026

SOURCE Microsoft Research, Aurora 1.5: Extending open foundation models for weather and Earth-system applications

Flint visualization language

Flint is a visualization intermediate language that compiles compact specs into polished charts across Vega-Lite, Apache ECharts, and Chart.js, with higher LLM-judge scores than DirectVL across three models.

Microsoft Research | Breakthroughs | Published Wednesday 8 Jul 2026

SOURCE Microsoft Research, Flint: A visualization language for the AI era

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