Microsoft lets shopping bots loose in a sandbox
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Earlier this week, a team of its researchers launched the Magentic Marketplace, an initiative they described as an “an open source simulation environment for exploring the numerous possibilities of agentic markets and their societal implications at scale.”
It manages capabilities such as maintaining catalogs of available goods and services, implementing discovery algorithms, facilitating agent-to-agent communication, and handling simulated payments through a centralized transaction layer.
The 23-person research team wrote in a blog detailing the project that it provides “a foundation for studying these markets and guiding them toward outcomes that benefit everyone, which matters because most AI agent research focuses on isolated scenarios — a single agent completing a task or two agents negotiating a simple transaction.”
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