A new framework from researchers at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and collaborating institutions provides an open source foundation for creating robust AI agents that can operate computers. The ...

Microsoft’s New ‘Fara-7B’ AI Agent Rivals GPT-4o, Runs Locally on Your PC Your email has been sent Microsoft has unveiled Fara-7B, a compact computer-use AI model designed to perform tasks the way a ...

Microsoft has developed a new component called UI-Evol that makes computer-use AI models much more accurate compared to ones which don't use it. Researchers from Microsoft Research Asia have developed ...

Microsoft’s Fara-7B is a 7B-parameter computer-use agent that runs locally on PCs, rivals GPT-4o on web tasks, and adds safety checkpoints for risky actions ...

The model can interpret on-screen visuals, automate tasks directly on the device, and give enterprises a more affordable alternative to cloud-dependent AI agents. Microsoft is pushing agentic AI ...

Some of the largest providers of large language models (LLMs) have sought to move beyond multimodal chatbots — extending their models out into "agents" that can actually take more actions on behalf of ...