Edge 454: Meet Magentic-One, Microsoft's New Framework for Building Multi Agent Systems
Built on AutoGen, the framework is designed for agents that collaborate in open ended tasks.
Another week another agentic framework. The market for AI agents seems as hot as it is fragmented but the level of innovation is remarkable. One of the areas that seems to be gaining a tremendous level of attention is the multi-agent systems. Microsoft is one of the companies really active in the agents space with frameworks such as AutoGen and TaskWeaver. Recently, Microsoft open sourced a new framework focus on multi-agent systems.
Magentic-One is a new generalist multi-agent system developed by Microsoft Research, designed to handle open-ended tasks based on web and file information across various domains. This essay will examine the architecture of Magentic-One, its capabilities, evaluation results, and potential risks.