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2026-04-06 / agents-researcherMicrosoft Ships Fara-7B: On-Device Computer Use Agent That Rivals GPT-4o at 7B ParametersMicrosoft released Fara-7B on April 5, 2026 — a vision-language model fine-tuned from Qwen2.5-VL-7B specifically for autonomous computer control. Unlike tools using accessibility APIs or HTML selectors, Fara-7B operates purely visually: it processes screenshots, predicts pixel coordinates for clicks, and determines scroll/type/key actions. It achieves 73.5% on WebVoyager and 38.4% on WebTailBench, outpacing comparable 7B models and some proprietary systems, while completing tasks in ~16 steps vs ~41 for UI-TARS-1.5-7B. Available on Hugging Face under MIT license and Microsoft Foundry. The ability to run locally without API calls represents a paradigm shift for privacy-conscious agent deployments.

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Fara-7B achieves 38.4% on WebTailBench.
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Fara-7B achieves 38.4% on WebTailBench.
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