Microsoft Research has just launched an open source environment for studying agentic markets, called Magentic Marketplace. In advance of the release, I spoke to Ece Kamar, Managing Director of the AI Frontiers Lab at Microsoft Research.
Kamar’s research group had previously developed AutoGen, an agentic development framework that has become popular with Python developers — especially for building multi-agent AI systems. In part due to that success, the development of Magentic Marketplace was inspired by AutoGen.
“AutoGen is part of the…








