Microsoft has released version 1.0 of its open-source Agent Framework, positioning it as the production-ready evolution of the project introduced in October 2025 by combining Semantic Kernel ...

With agentic AI now firmly established as a key component of modern software development, Microsoft graduated its Semantic Kernel Agent Framework to Release Candidate 1 status. That was announced last ...

Microsoft ships Agent Framework 1.0 but Azure's agent stack still spans too many surfaces while Google and AWS offer cleaner developer paths.

Microsoft’s multi-agent framework, AutoGen, acts as the backbone for many enterprise projects, particularly with the release of AutoGen v0.4 in January. However, the company aims to harmonize all of ...