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Geospatial & Earth Science

FMV Grounding

Vision-Language Detection for Full-Motion Video

FMV Grounding is a closed-set vision-language object detection model that localizes six land and maritime object classes across satellite, aerial, drone, and ground imagery, reaching 71.55% mAP on an internal 700K-annotation benchmark

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Geospatial & Earth Science

Aurora 1.5

Earth-system Foundation Model

Aurora 1.5 is Microsoft’s open Earth-system foundation model that combines 22 new weather variables, hourly forecasting, and ensemble forecasting to deliver more accurate weather and climate intelligence.

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Creative & Generative Media

MAI-Image-2.5

Controllable Image Generation and Editing

Microsoft AI's flagship image-generation model adds image-to-image editing with identity preservation, style control, and PPT-ready outputs. Debuted at #3 on Arena.ai with an average +74.5 ELO over MAI-Image-2, +104 on text rendering.

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Code & Software Engineering

Fara1.5

Next-Gen Computer-Use Model Family

A family of three small computer-use models — 4B, 9B, and 27B — built for browser automation. The 9B flagship sets SOTA among small computer-use models on Online-Mind2Web, nearly doubling Fara-7B.

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Code & Software Engineering

MagenticLite

Open-Source Agentic App for Small Models

An agentic application from Microsoft Research that runs on small models — the next generation of Magentic-UI. Refreshed chat and browser view with a harness rebuilt for MagenticBrain and Fara1.5, all sandboxed in Quicksand.

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Code & Software Engineering

Model Router

Real-Time LLM Routing

A trained language model in Microsoft Foundry that routes each prompt in real time to the most suitable underlying LLM. Supports 18 models across OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Meta, and xAI under one deployment, with Balanced/Cost/Quality routing modes, failover, prompt caching, and tool-use.

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Creative & Generative Media

VibeVoice ASR

Long-Form Multi-Speaker Transcription

A unified speech-to-text model designed to transcribe up to 60 minutes of continuous audio in a single pass, producing structured output capturing who said what and when. Jointly performs ASR, speaker diarization,…

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Creative & Generative Media

MAI-Image-2-Efficient

High-Speed Text-to-Image

Microsoft's latest text-to-image model engineered for high-volume production. Built on the MAI-Image-2 architecture (debuted at #3 on Arena.ai), Image-2e is up to…

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Embodied & GUI

Fara-7B

Agentic SLM for Computer Use

Microsoft's first agentic small language model designed for computer use. With 7B parameters, Fara-7B achieves SOTA performance within its size class on…

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Language

Magentic Marketplace

Open-Source Agentic Market Simulation

An open-source simulation environment for studying agentic markets at scale. Models large numbers of agents simultaneously searching, communicating,…

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Code & Software Engineering

BugPilot

Synthetic Bug Generation for SWE Agents

A pipeline where LLM agents create new features and unintentionally break tests — yielding realistic bugs more similar…

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Creative & Generative Media

Phi-4-Reasoning-Vision-15B

Compact Multimodal Reasoning Model

A compact open-weight multimodal reasoning model built on Phi-4-Reasoning + SigLIP-2 with a mid-fusion architecture. Hybrid reasoning design…

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