Microsoft joins multi-AI agent fray with Magentic-One

The new multi-agent system will go some way toward answering Marc Benioff’s criticism of Microsoft’s existing AI offering: The Salesforce CEO has said, “Copilot is more like Clippy 2.0,” referring to the ill-fated and irritating animated paperclip that once offered assistance on writing a letter in Microsoft Office.

Magentic-One has a multi-agent architecture in which one agent, the Orchestrator, directs four other agents to solve a given task.

“The Orchestrator plans, tracks pr...

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