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Microsoft wants enterprises to believe that its Magnetic-One multi-AI agent system will enable them to automate complex tasks that previously required human intervention.
One of a number of Agentic AI offerings to arrive on the market in recent months, Magnetic-One is built on Microsoft’s previously released AutoGen open-source agent development framework.
Microsoft expects the generalist multi-agent system, which is also open, to be used for open-ended web and file-based tasks for now, but it aims to create a multi-agent system than can handle complex tasks involving reasoning, such as automatically ordering in food or arranging a delivery of a product.
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...