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Orchard: An open framework for scalable agentic AI
Orchard is an open-source framework for the research community to train and evaluate AI agents across task types. It reduces complexity while supporting strong performance from smaller models by enabling researchers to reuse the same infrastructure.
By Baolin Peng, Wenlin Yao, Qianhui Wu, Hao Cheng, Jianfeng GaoMicrosoft Research Blog

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Originally published by Microsoft Research Blog on Aug 3, 2026.
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