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Orchard: An open framework for scalable agentic AI
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Fusion42 · 4 August 2026 · Fusion42 review
Microsoft Research released Orchard, an open-source, scalable framework that supports training and evaluating autonomous agentic AI across diverse tasks like software engineering, web navigation, and personal assistant functions, using a reusable Kubernetes-based environment and enabling agent training directly inside deployment harnesses.
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You can now build autonomous AI agents that train directly in real deployment environments, cutting out complex proprietary setups and accelerating robust multi-task research and deployment.
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