Microsoft Open-Sources Orchard Framework for Agentic AI
Microsoft Research released Orchard, an open-source framework for training and evaluating AI agents across task types. It reduces complexity and supports strong performance from smaller models by enabling researchers to reuse infrastructure, aiming to scale agentic AI research.
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