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Microsoft releases a simulated marketplace for testing AI agents alongside research showing businesses can manipulate agents into buying their products and more

On Wednesday, researchers at Microsoft released a new simulation environment designed to test AI agents, along with new research showing …

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  • @jennyshwang Jenny Wang on x
    Super cool and valuable tool from MSR for anyone thinking about AI agents + e-commerce
  • @bansalg_ Gagan Bansal on x
    🌻 Announcing New Agents + Economics Research from Microsoft! AI agents are starting to shop and buy for us. At the same time, agents are representing and providing customer support on behalf of businesses. We believe that these two sides will soon collide, and... 1/n [video]
  • @msftresearch @msftresearch on x
    AI agents are transforming digital marketplaces, mediating discovery and transactions between consumers and businesses. The new Magentic Marketplace provides an open-source, extensible simulation environment for studying different agentic market designs: https://www.microsoft.com…
  • @erichorvitz Eric Horvitz on x
    Agents and economics: Platform for studying worlds that we can expect. Focus: Exploration of two-sided agentic marketplace.
  • @andreyfradkin Andrey Fradkin on x
    Microsoft research has created an interesting environment for testing agents interacting in a virtual market. It's a great first step in moving towards useful AI agents for economic activity. https://www.microsoft.com/...