Agent

With the rapid development of generative AI and intelligent agents, self-hosted intelligent systems are gaining increasing attention from developers and technical teams. Clawdbot is one such open-source, self-hostable personal AI assistant. It not only engages in conversation with users but also executes tasks, integrates with messaging platforms, provides automation capabilities, and can be deployed on cloud platforms like Azure. This article will step-by-step introduce Clawdbot’s capabilities, architecture, and how to deploy and start using it on Microsoft Azure....

Microsoft Research recently released Fara-7B, an Agentic Small Language Model (SLM) designed specifically for Computer Use. Unlike traditional chat models, Fara-7B is designed to complete tasks by using a mouse and keyboard just like a human. What is Fara-7B? Fara-7B is a 7 billion parameter model built on Qwen2.5-VL-7B. Its key features include: Visual Perception: It operates by visually perceiving web pages (screenshots), without relying on Accessibility Trees or additional parsing models....