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Microsoft introduces Magentic-One, a new generalist multi-agent system designed to handle complex web and file-based tasks. It uses an Orchestrator agent that directs four specialized agents: WebSurfer for browser operations, FileSurfer for file management, Coder for programming tasks, and ComputerTerminal for console operations. Magentic-One achieves competitive performance on multiple benchmarks including GAIA, AssistantBench, and WebArena, without requiring modifications to its core architecture. Built on Microsoft's AutoGen framework, Magentic-One employs a unique dual-loop architecture where the Orchestrator manages both task and progress ledgers. The system is open-source, along with AutoGenBench, a new evaluation tool for testing agent-based systems. It's very early, but this new movement of building generalist agentic systems is something to keep an eye out for. In addition, other current LLM-based applications like RAG will also benefit from this type of system that builds on top of multiple specialized agents.