By @SiliconANGLE
Publication Date: 2025-11-24 23:36:00
Microsoft Corp. today showcased its vision of an agentic artificial intelligence future for everyday consumers with the launch of its newest model Fara-7B, which can run locally on personal computers and is smart enough to use them to complete tasks.
The company said in a blog post that Fara-7B is its first agentic small language model, and is designed specifically for “computer use” tasks, meaning it can control a mouse and a keyboard.
Because it spans only 7 billion parameters, it’s significantly smaller than today’s most powerful large language models. For instance, even GPT-3, which debuted in 2020 – way before the AI boom even took off – featured more than 175 billion parameters. However, its small size does not prevent it from achieving what Microsoft says is “state-of-the-art performance,” especially when compared to other models within its size class.
Fara-7B is also said to be competitive with larger, more resource-intensive agentic systems that…
