MagenticLite: A full-stack agentic experience powered by Small Models

What if you could run a capable AI agent without leaning on frontier-scale models? MagenticLite is the next generation of Magentic-UI, an agentic experience reimagined and optimized for small language models. It works across both your browser and your local file system in a single workflow, keeping you in the driver’s seat at every step. In this session, we’ll demo MagenticLite in action and deep dive into the two models powering it: MagenticBrain for planning, coding, and delegation, and Fara-1.5-9B for browser use. Fara1.5 and MagenticBrain coming soon to Microsoft Foundry This session aired on May 14, 2026, at Microsoft Research Forum, Season 2 Episode 4. Register for the series to learn about future episodes: https://events.microsoft.com/flow/ms/researchforum/register/page/microsoftresearchforumreg/?OCID=msr_researchforum_YTDescription Explore all previous episodes: https://aka.ms/researchforumYTplaylist