Microsoft Research Forum | Season 2, Episode 4

Published on 14 May 2026, 16:00

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MagenticLite
Fara1.5 and MagenticBrain will be available on Microsoft Foundry soon

GitHub Agentic Workflows: AI that runs your repo
GitHub: github.github.com/gh-aw

Interwhen: Steering reasoning agents with real-time verification
ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2602.11202
GitHub: github.com/microsoft/interwhen

New fine-tuning of language models: Match meaning, not tokens
Paper: energy-based-fine-tuning.githu...
ArXiv preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2603.12248
GitHub: github.com/sjelassi/ebft_openr...

Guiding the AI disruption to the Good Place
Paper: cacm.acm.org/opinion/the-agent...
Paper: nber.org/system/files/chapters...
ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2510.25779
ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2603.25893

Microsoft Research Forum, Season 2 Episode 4 aired on May 14, 2026.