Microsoft has unveiled its first small language model (SLM), Fara-7B, which has been developed to use a computer the way humans do. The new model is an extension of Microsoft’s SLMs that were ...

Microsoft's new Fara-7B model is a compact AI system built to operate user interfaces purely through visual input. Despite its small size, it aims to keep pace with far more complex systems while ...

Microsoft has launched Fara-7B, its first small language model built to operate a computer the way a person does. The company claims the 7-billion-parameter model matches or beats larger agentic ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft Corp. today showcased its vision of an agentic artificial intelligence future for everyday consumers with the launch of its newest model Fara-7B, which can run locally on personal computers ...

In 2024, Microsoft introduced small language models (SLMs) to customers, starting with the release of Phi (opens in new tab) models on Microsoft Foundry (opens in new tab), as well as deploying Phi ...

Microsoft has introduced Fara-7B, a new 7-billion parameter model designed to act as a Computer Use Agent (CUA) capable of performing complex tasks directly on a user’s device. Fara-7B sets new ...

CoDA adapts a 1.7B-parameter backbone to discrete diffusion for text: masked sequences are iteratively denoised using full-sequence attention, enabling native infilling and non-autoregressive decoding ...

Xiaomi’s MiMo team released MiMo-Audio, a 7-billion-parameter audio-language model that runs a single next-token objective over interleaved text and discretized speech, scaling pretraining beyond 100 ...