Microsoft says Agent Framework 1.0 is the production-ready release, with stable APIs and long-term support for both .NET and Python. The framework is presented as a unified successor path that builds ...

Workflow is still at the heart of the new framework. Building on the strengths of the Semantic Kernel and AutoGen agent implementations, the new framework offers support for workflow orchestration and ...

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 ...