The end of Microsoft Research's AI Frontiers group

A researcher's firsthand account of a frontier lab choosing scaling over research, which affects which work (agent frameworks, optimizers, architectures) continues.

• AI agent — An AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.

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