Redefining Prompt Development: How POML Makes AI Application Development as Simple as Web Design August 19, 2025 – Microsoft Research’s newly introduced POML (Prompt Orchestration Markup Language) is transforming how we write prompts. Through component-based design, style control systems, and intelligent development tools, complex AI application development has been simplified into an intuitive process similar to web page creation. Why Do We Need POML? When building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs), have you encountered these challenges? Prompts are like clay – difficult to shape – Traditional prompts mix all content together, requiring complete restructuring with any single change …
How a 7-Billion-Parameter Model Cracked Olympiad Programming: Inside Microsoft’s rStar-Coder unsplash.com/coding-laptop In May 2025, a research team quietly released a data set that changed the conversation around small language models (SLMs) and competitive programming. Named rStar-Coder, the project delivers 418 000 verified competition-grade code problems and 580 000 step-by-step reasoning solutions. When the team fine-tuned the modest Qwen2.5-Coder-7B on this data, the model leapt from 23 % to 62.5 % on LiveCodeBench—outperforming OpenAI o3-mini (low) and even QWQ-32B, a 32-billion-parameter powerhouse that generated the training rationales in the first place. This article explains—without marketing fluff—how the authors built the data …
id: magentic-ui-architecture name: Magentic-UI System Architecture type: mermaid content: |- graph TD A[User] –> B[Orchestrator] B –> C[WebSurfer Agent] B –> D[Coder Agent] B –> E[FileSurfer Agent] B –> F[UserProxy Agent] C –> G[Browser Automation] D –> H[Code Execution] E –> I[File Management] F –> J[User Interaction] style A fill:#90EE90,stroke:#333 style B fill:#87CEEB,stroke:#333 Magentic-UI: The AI Agent Revolutionizing Web Task Automation In our increasingly digital world, web-based tasks consume significant portions of professional and personal time. From information gathering to complex dashboard navigation, many digital workflows remain frustratingly manual. Microsoft Research’s Magentic-UI emerges as a groundbreaking solution – an AI …