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Microsoft Research introduced SkillOpt framework

Microsoft Research introduced SkillOpt, a framework that treats AI agent instructions and skills as trainable parameters rather than manually adjusted prompts. Claims are as reported; this summary makes no determination about accuracy or significance.

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Microsoft Research introduced Orchard open framework for agentic AI

Microsoft Research has introduced Orchard, an open-source framework designed to help researchers train and evaluate AI agents across diverse task types. According to Microsoft Research, the framework reduces operational complexity while enabling smaller models to achieve competitive agentic performance by standardizing execution and evaluation pipelines across reusable components. Claims are as reported; this summary makes no determination about accuracy or significance.

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