Gagan Bansal
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Researcher @msftresearch | Previously @uwcse, @iitdelhi | Co-built AutoGen (graduated to Microsoft Agent Framework)
Seattle, WA
Joined November 2012
🌻 Announcing New Agents + Economics Research from Microsoft! AI agents are starting to shop and buy for us. At the same time, agents are representing and providing customer support on behalf of businesses. We believe that these two sides will soon collide, and... 1/n
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⚖️ 📈 Microsoft Research released Magentic Marketplace, an open-source environment that lets people test how LLM agents buy, sell, negotiate, and pay at scale, revealing real issues in discovery, fairness, and safety. It simulates two-sided markets with a central server, simple
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Magentic Marketplace is live from AI Frontiers @MSFTResearch—an open simulation for studying agentic markets. @thenewstack dives into why we test in the open: agents will reshape work, so we must map risks & failure modes first. #AgenticAI #AIResponsibility #OpenSource
Magentic Marketplace is a simulation environment for agentic markets, a new project from @Microsoft to explore multi-agent collaboration. Feat. @ecekamar
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Check out our recent work on Magentic Marketplace! w/ @bansalg_ @HuaWenyue31539 @ZacharyHuang12 @adamfourney @ASwearngin77874 @w_epperson T. Payne @jakehofman @BrendanLucier @chisingh @markusmobius A. Nambi A. Yadav @davmicrot @MayaMurad0 M. Vogel @rao2z @erichorvitz and others!
Must-read AI research of the week: ▪️ Supervised Reinforcement Learning (SRL) ▪️ SPICE: Self-Play In Corpus Environments Improves Reasoning ▪️ Reasoning-Aware GRPO using Process Mining ▪️ Magentic Marketplace: An Open-Source Environment for Studying Agentic Markets ▪️ The Era of
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Microsoft Research has introduced Magentic Marketplace, an open-source simulation environment designed to study agentic markets where LLM-powered agents act on behalf of users or businesses. Unlike past limited experiments, this environment models dynamic, multi-agent
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Launching Magentic Marketplace from AI Frontiers. Agents are about to reshape how we work, trade, and collaborate. Our job is to understand the system—and its failure modes—before it scales. Thoughtful research first, deployment second. https://t.co/9lfLQNmB2e via @techcrunch
techcrunch.com
The research raises new questions about how well AI agents will perform when working unsupervised — and how quickly AI companies can make good on promises of an agentic future.
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Magentic Marketplace is a simulation environment for agentic markets, a new project from @Microsoft to explore multi-agent collaboration. Feat. @ecekamar
thenewstack.io
Magentic Marketplace is a simulation environment for agentic markets, a new project from Microsoft to explore multi-agent collaboration.
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Researchers at Microsoft have developed a new simulation environment for testing AI agents, revealing surprising weaknesses in the current state-of-the-art.
techcrunch.com
The research raises new questions about how well AI agents will perform when working unsupervised — and how quickly AI companies can make good on promises of an agentic future.
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The 2026 Microsoft Research Fellowship program is now open for submissions. Calling for passionate collaborators on pressing technical & sociotechnical challenges @MSFTResearch
Announcing the 2026 Microsoft Research Fellowship, a program that creates opportunities for faculty, PhD students, and postdocs to collaborate with Microsoft Research on open research challenges that advance science and benefit society. Submit proposals by Dec 2:
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AI agents are transforming digital marketplaces, mediating discovery and transactions between consumers and businesses. The new Magentic Marketplace provides an open-source, extensible simulation environment for studying different agentic market designs: https://t.co/UET0smOaJ8
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2025 is going to be a huge year for AI Agents. Russell & Norvig recently published this great textbook on Agents!!🤯 Here's what's included: AI Complete! Where can you learn about it all? Your neighborhood Intro #AI course.. (eg. https://t.co/eqNB7dM5DK )
Why #AI folks need a broad based Intro to #AI
#SundayHarangue As I go around giving talks/tutorials on the planning and reasoning abilities of LLMs, I am constantly surprised at the rather narrow ML-centric background of grad students/young researchers have about #AI. This
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Today's AI agents are optimized to complete tasks in one shot. But real-world tasks are iterative, with evolving goals that need collaboration with users. We introduce collaborative effort scaling to evaluate how well agents work with people—not just complete tasks 🧵
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Must-read AI research of the week: ▪️ Supervised Reinforcement Learning (SRL) ▪️ SPICE: Self-Play In Corpus Environments Improves Reasoning ▪️ Reasoning-Aware GRPO using Process Mining ▪️ Magentic Marketplace: An Open-Source Environment for Studying Agentic Markets ▪️ The Era of
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هل يمكن (Agents) أن يتفاوضوا ويشتروا ويبيعوا مثل البشر؟ ورقة بعنوان [Magentic Marketplace: An Open-Source Environment for Studying Agentic Markets] قدّمت أول بيئة مفتوحة المصدر لدراسة هذا السؤال، ونتائجها تكشف كيف تتصرّف النماذج عندما تدخل [السوق] فعلاً تعالوا نشوف👇🏻👇🏻
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Microsoftなどの研究者らは、AIエージェント同士が商品やサービスの売買を行うようになると想定しています。 今でも一部の人はAIに買い物をさせていますが、このまま売り手も買い手もAIになり、経済が成立するというのです。 そこで彼らは”全員AIエージェント”の経済をシミュレーションしました。
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Microsoft research has created an interesting environment for testing agents interacting in a virtual market. It's a great first step in moving towards useful AI agents for economic activity. https://t.co/bRhfWuOJjt
microsoft.com
Open-source agentic marketplace platform. Study how AI agents search, negotiate & transact. Reveals biases & vulnerabilities.
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🚀 Excited to share our new research from MSR! 🎯 We built "Magentic Marketplace" - an open-source platform simulating what happens when BOTH consumers AND businesses use AI agents for transactions. With ChatGPT shopping for us and AI handling customer service, what does this
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For this Halloween, I am going 🎃(m)Agentic!🎃 Enjoyed collaborating with the many impressive folks at @MSFTResearch on their Magentic Marketplace ( https://t.co/kpYViq0GaQ), an open-source testbed and evaluation of multi-agent marketplace that has LLM agents acting on behalf of
🌻 Announcing New Agents + Economics Research from Microsoft! AI agents are starting to shop and buy for us. At the same time, agents are representing and providing customer support on behalf of businesses. We believe that these two sides will soon collide, and... 1/n
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w/ @HuaWenyue31539 @ZacharyHuang12 @adamfourney A. Swearngin @w_epperson T. Payne @jakehofman @BrendanLucier @chisingh @markusmobius A. Nambi A. Yadav @kevinleogao @davmicrot A. Slivkins @dggoldst @HsseinMzannar @immorlica @MayaMurad0 M. Vogel @rao2z @erichorvitz
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Read our full paper: https://t.co/tdbwzQzFF8 This was truly a joint effort between many colleagues comprising computer scientist and economists from Microsoft. 8/
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The future: We need agents that truly compare options, markets that work at massive scale, and market designs that stay fair when humans and AI trade together. This simulator gives us a safe place to figure that out before real money is at stake. 7/
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