Microsoft’s open-weight Fara1.5 hit 72% on live-web tasks, beating OpenAI and Google in a key browser-agent test.
Key takeaways
- Microsoft’s Fara1.5-27B scored 72% on a live-web task benchmark, beating OpenAI Operator at 58.3% and Google’s Gemini 2.5 Computer Use at 57.3%...
- The Fara1.5 family was released on May 22, 2026, and includes 4B, 9B, and 27B parameter models, according to CryptoBriefing. The short version: Mic...
- That pushes web automation into a more competitive phase. The old model was brittle scripts and rule-based robotic process automation. The newer model is an AI agent t...
- Why do builders care that Fara1.5 is open-weight?
👉 Read the full breakdown on MLXIO
Canonical source: https://mlxio.com/ai-ml/fara15-ai-web-tasks
