Turing welcomes Ece Kamar (@ecekamar) as Chief Technology Officer. Ece joins to lead Turing's technology and research strategy, helping steer the company through our next phase of growth as we scale across both frontier AI labs and Fortune 500 enterprises. We’re advancing the AI frontier by providing the human expert data, RL environments, evals, and benchmarks that define what agents can do, and also translating that research into reliable, adaptable agentic systems enterprises can depend on, with sovereignty built in from the start. We’re doubling down on software engineering, enterprise knowledge work, and frontier STEM. Ece comes from Microsoft, where she led the AI Frontiers Lab as Corporate Vice President, driving research from foundation models to agentic AI and building the tools, benchmarks, and open-source projects used across the field, including the Phi models and AutoGen. She co-authored the "Sparks of AGI" research paper and holds a PhD from Harvard. Welcome to the team, Ece. We’re excited for what’s ahead!

Fara1.5 is here! The tech report just landed on arXiv. New SOTA for computer use agents of its size, and it competes with much larger frontier models. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2606.20785

Next-token prediction is myopic. What if transformers learn to predict their own next latent state? 🌠 We present 𝗡𝗲𝘅𝘁-𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 (𝗡𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗟𝗮𝘁): a self-supervised learning method that teaches transformers to form compact world models for reasoning and planning. It also unlocks up to 3.3x faster inference via self-speculative decoding! 🚀

How patient is your agent? We’re releasing SentinelBench: web monitoring tasks across 10 synthetic apps, designed to test whether agents can watch, wait, and act when the world changes. Turns out “how you wait” matters. A lot. SentinelBench, a Benchmark for Long-Running Monitoring Agents - Microsoft Research

Using SocialReasoning Bench, we observed a stable pattern across models—agents execute competently, but fail to consistently improve the user’s position, even with explicit instructions to optimize for user interest. msft.it/6011vPOLF

🚀 Hiring: Research Scientists 🚀 We're hiring Senior and Principal Researchers in Agentic AI at @ms_aifrontiers Lab at @ResearchU Our focus is on developing self-improving agentic systems, agents that learn through interaction with humans and other agents, coordinate and collaborate, and scale into complex real-world environments, covering everything from training and evaluation to deployment. If your expertise includes agentic AI, multi-agent reasoning, continual learning, or synthetic data and evaluation, we want to hear from you! 📝 Apply from below links 📝 apply.careers.microsoft.com/… apply.careers.microsoft.com/…

AI agents shrug off aggressive negotiation tactics. But tell one there's a "Geneva Coffee Convention" capping prices at $2/bean? It folds. Our new research shows that absurd, whimsical strategies — seeded from 2.5K Wikipedia articles — reliably broke even frontier models in simulated negotiations. By grounding generation in diverse external knowledge, we can produce out-of-distribution attacks at scale that standard red-teaming misses. Read more about our findings: microsoft.com/en-us/research… Great work led by @ZacharyHuang12

Hey AutoGen community — we have an important update to share! You know us as the team behind AutoGen, one of the most popular open-source frameworks for building multi-agent systems. What you might not know is that AutoGen came out of MSR AI Frontiers, a boutique lab inside Microsoft Research. AutoGen has since graduated into the Microsoft Agent Framework, where it continues to grow with a broader team. Meanwhile, our lab has kept pushing on the frontier of agents and the models that power them: small models that punch above their weight (Phi-4 Reasoning, Fara-7B), powerful agents that work across the browser and terminal (Magentic-One, Magentic-UI), and new ideas about how models think, reason, and act. We're repurposing this account as the home for MSR AI Frontiers. Same team, still shipping at the bleeding edge of agents, with a lot more to share soon. Follow along!