Microsoft has expanded preview access for its Microsoft Discovery platform, an agentic AI tool designed to enhance research and development (R&D) processes. The platform, which has been under development for over a year through close collaboration with R&D organizations, is now being made available to a broader audience. This move reflects the growing momentum and real-world applications of the platform, which aims to transform how R&D teams operate by integrating advanced reasoning and collaborative intelligence. Microsoft Discovery is built on Azure’s enterprise cloud infrastructure, ensuring compliance with security, transparency, and governance standards required for sensitive R&D environments. The platform combines agentic orchestration, advanced reasoning, a graph-based knowledge foundation, and high-performance computing to support complex scientific workflows. It enables specialized agents to reason over vast knowledge bases, generate hypotheses, and validate them across a broad search space. According to Microsoft, the platform is designed to help R&D teams iterate faster and move from hypothesis to outcome with greater confidence. *Source: [azureai](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-discovery-advancing-agentic-rd-at-scale/)*