Microsoft has released version 1.0 of its open-source Agent Framework, positioning it as the production-ready evolution of the project introduced in October 2025 by combining Semantic Kernel ...

Microsoft ships Agent Framework 1.0 but Azure's agent stack still spans too many surfaces while Google and AWS offer cleaner developer paths.

Microsoft’s multi-agent framework, AutoGen, acts as the backbone for many enterprise projects, particularly with the release of AutoGen v0.4 in January. However, the company aims to harmonize all of ...

Microsoft is sorting out its dev tooling for one of the hottest areas of the nascent GenAI age, agentic AI. Agentic AI goes beyond simple prompt-and-response chatbots and content generation to provide ...

Back in the early 1990s, I worked in a large telecoms research lab, as part of the Advanced Local Loop group. Our problem domain was the “last mile”—getting services to peoples’ homes. One of my ...

Large language models (LLMs) by themselves are less than meets the eye; the moniker “stochastic parrots” isn’t wrong. Connect LLMs to specific data for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and you get ...