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Hey AutoGen community — we have an important update to share!

You know us as the team behind AutoGen, one of the most popular open-source frameworks for building multi-agent systems. What you might not know is that AutoGen came out of MSR AI Frontiers, a boutique lab inside Microsoft Research.

AutoGen has since graduated into the Microsoft Agent Framework, where it continues to grow with a broader team. Meanwhile, our lab has kept pushing on the frontier of agents and the models that power them: small models that punch above their weight (Phi-4 Reasoning, Fara-7B), powerful agents that work across the browser and terminal (Magentic-One, Magentic-UI), and new ideas about how models think, reason, and act.

We're repurposing this account as the home for MSR AI Frontiers. Same team, still shipping at the bleeding edge of agents, with a lot more to share soon. Follow along!
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Today we're introducing Web Skill Factory: a pipeline that turns solved web tasks into reusable, verified code.

Most agent "skills" are notes a model rereads and reinterprets every run. Ours are programs.

On a WebArena subset with gpt-5.4, reusing the library moved accuracy on held-out instances from 55% to 70%, and cut average steps from 17.1 to 14.7.
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New from Microsoft AI Frontiers - Echoverse: deep, evolving environments for computer-use agents.

The idea is that the next leap comes not just from better models, but from agents, worlds and tasks that co-evolve. Trained on twelve worlds, a 9B model goes 36.5% → 67.1% across fourteen splits.

We're open-sourcing four environments to accelerate work on computer-use agents. Each ships as a runnable application with its seed database, and every task carries the grounded verifier that scores it.

Check it out! aka.ms/echoverse
github.com GitHub - microsoft/Echoverse: Deep, Evolving Environments for Computer-Use Agents Deep, Evolving Environments for Computer-Use Agents - microsoft/Echoverse
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MagenticLite's models are now fully open source!

MagenticBrain (14B orchestrator) and the Fara 1.5 computer-use family (4B / 9B / 27B), previously on Microsoft Foundry, are now on Hugging Face with open weights.

The app, the harness, and every model in the stack are now openly available.

MagenticLite: aka.ms/magenticlite

Fara1.5: aka.ms/fara1.5-hf

MagenticBrain: aka.ms/magenticbrain-…

Fara1.5 blog: aka.ms/fara1.5