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Microsoft today announced Fara-7B, its first agentic small language model (SLM) designed for computer use. “Unlike traditional chat models that generate text-based responses, Computer Use Agent (CUA) ...

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Fara-7B is Microsoft's first agentic small language model (SLM) designed specifically for computer use. With only 7 billion parameters, Fara-7B is an ultra-compact Computer Use Agent (CUA) that ...