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Microsoft Research presents Magentic-One

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Magentic-One presented — a general-purpose multi-agent system in which an Orchestrator directs WebSurfer, FileSurfer, Coder and ComputerTerminal

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A reference implementation of the orchestrator-worker pattern

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