AI Agents
Autonomous agents, multi-agent workflows and orchestration.
54 published articles
AI Agents
Microsoft's bet on small models for agentic AI is about orchestration, not knowledge
Microsoft Research's MagenticLite project shows that small models can handle complex agentic tasks when orchestration, model design, and execution environment are codesigned. The release includes MagenticBrain, a 14B orchestrator, and Fara1.5, a computer-use model family that nearly doubles prior performance on web navigation benchmarks.
2026-07-09
AI Agents
Parallel agents aren't about speed. They're about coordination.
Parallel agents split complex tasks across concurrent workers, each with isolated state and defined scope. The real challenge isn't speed, it's coordination.
2026-07-09
agent reliability
AI agents can't tell when a Java migration is actually done
IBM Research introduces ScarfBench, an open benchmark for evaluating AI agents on enterprise Java framework migration. Early tests reveal that frontier agents are systematically overconfident about their own results, that configuration layers dominate effort, and that environment issues like Docker caches regularly derail migrations even when code transformations succeed.
2026-07-06
Multi-agent architectures
Why Qoder gives every AI agent a boss
Qoder's Experts Mode replaces peer-to-peer multi-agent messaging with a single Leader that coordinates specialized experts asynchronously. The architecture reduces state explosion, improves quality across four dimensions, and extracts reusable skills after each task.
2026-03-11
AI Agents
One terminal command now launches a local AI assistant that handles your inbox
With Ollama 0.17, users can now launch a local, open-source AI assistant in one terminal command. OpenClaw manages inboxes, email, and calendar tasks across chat apps.
2026-02-23
AI Agents
Ollama just gave Claude Code a second brain for parallel tasks
Ollama now supports parallel subagents and built-in web search for Claude Code, enabling longer coding sessions with less context noise. The new features work with any Ollama cloud model and require no additional configuration.
2026-02-16