**Overview**

The mission of the AI Frontiers (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/lab/ai-frontiers/overview/) lab is to expand the pareto frontier of Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities, efficiency, and safety through innovations in foundation models and learning agent platforms. Some of our projects include work on Small Language Models (e.g. Phi, Fara, Fara-multimodal, OmniParser) and agentic AI systems (e.g. AutoGen, MagenticOne, Magentic-UI).

We are advancing the science of agents with research on Machine Learning (ML), Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and AI. To bridge foundational breakthroughs with real-world agent autonomy, we are building an end-to-end agentic model stack that integrates pre-training, post-training, reinforcement learning (RL), multi-agent collaboration, agentic harness, and deployment. Our core objective is to create self-improving AI systems that can navigate dynamic enterprise environments by learning through experience and in...