Microsoft AI Releases Fara-7B: An Efficient Agentic Model for Computer Use Fara-7B is Microsoft’s 7B parameter, open weight Computer Use Agent that runs on screenshots and text to automate real web…

Microsoft released Fara-7B, a 7 billion parameter open-weight AI model designed for browser automation. Built on Qwen2.5-VL-7B and trained on 145,603 verified trajectories, it processes screenshots and text to automate web tasks on user devices. The model achieves 73.5% success on WebVoyager and 38.4% on WebTailBench benchmarks while maintaining cost efficiency and implementing safety safeguards including Critical Point detection and refusal mechanisms.