Microsoft Research Tests AI Collaboration and Competition in a Digital Agents Marketplace
2025-11-08 01:25
Microsoft Research has launched an experimental platform called Magentic Marketplace, designed to explore how artificial intelligence agents interact, cooperate, and compete in dynamic environments. Developed in collaboration with Arizona State University, the platform simulates a digital economy where hundreds of AI agents act as buyers, sellers, and service providers. For example, “customer” agents complete tasks such as ordering food, while “corporate” agents compete for contracts and deals. The source code for Magentic Marketplace has been made public, allowing third-party researchers to replicate or expand on Microsoft’s experiments. Study Reveals Limits Of AI Autonomy Ece Kamar, head of the AI Frontiers Lab at Microsoft Research, said that simulations like this can help scientists understand how autonomous systems might function in the real world. “The key question,” Kamar explained, “is whether autonomous systems can effectively interact and negotiate without human oversight.” The experiments uncovered several weaknesses across major AI models — including...
