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Microsoft retires AutoGen and debuts Agent Framework to unify and govern enterprise AI agents

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 its agent framework offerings and bring more observability capabilities to the forefront as well. Microsoft released the Agent Framework on public preview, which will now essentially be the company's sole orchestration and agent framework.

Microsoft said AutoGen and Semantic Kernel will “remain in maintenance mode, which means they will not receive new feature investments but will c [...]

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