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Microsoft’s new AI agent can control software and robots

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Microsoft Research introduces Magma , an integrated AI foundation model.

It combines visual and language processing to control software interfaces and robotic systems.

Microsoft is positioning Magma as a step toward agentic AI , meaning a system that can perform tasks on a human's behalf.

Magma builds off of Transformer -based LLM technology that feeds training tokens into a neural network.

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