VentureBeat January 15, 2025
Microsoft has updated its AutoGen orchestration framework so the agents it helps build can become more flexible and give organizations more control.
AutoGen v0.4 brings robustness to AI agents and solves issues customers identified around architectural constraints.
“The initial release of AutoGen generated widespread interest in agentic technologies,” Microsoft researchers said in a blog post. “At the same time, users struggled with architectural constraints, an inefficient API compounded by rapid growth and limited debugging and intervention functionality.”
The researchers added that customers are asking for stronger observability and control, flexibility around multi-agent collaboration and reusable components.
AutoGen v0.4 is more modular and extensible, with scalability and distributed agent networks. It adds asynchronous messaging; cross-language support, observability and...