fara 7b

Microsoft’s Ignite-driven pivot to an “agentic” Windows is no marketing flash — it’s a coordinated product, platform, and research push that couples new Copilot entry points in the Taskbar with an on-device agent runtime, enterprise controls, and an open‑weight experiment called Fara‑7B that...

Microsoft's Research team has quietly pushed a milestone in on-device AI: Fara-7B, a 7‑billion‑parameter agentic small language model (SLM) built to see webpages and operate a PC by predicting mouse and keyboard actions, and it’s now available as an open-weight research artifact for hands‑on...