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Aired March 3, 2026

Magentic Marketplace: Testing societies of agents at scale

Gagan Bansal
Principal Researcher
Microsoft Research AI Frontiers
Agent Lightning: One learning system that makes all agents evolve

Luna Qiu
Senior Technical Program Manager
Microsoft Research Asia (Shanghai)
Teaching small language models to think like optimization experts with OptiMind

Xinzhi Zhang
Research Intern
Microsoft Research Redmond
Lessons from deploying HealthBots with experts-in-the-loop

Mohit Jain
Principal Researcher
Microsoft Research India
ARO: A new lens on matrix optimization for LLMs

Chao Ma
Senior Researcher
Microsoft Research Cambridge
Wenbo Gong
Senior Researcher
Microsoft Research Cambridge
Dion2: A new simple method to shrink matrix in Muon

Kwangjun Ahn

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