Orchard: An open framework for scalable agentic AI

Microsoft Research released Orchard, an open-source framework for scalable agentic AI, including three domain-specific training recipes (Orchard-SWE, Orchard-GUI, Orchard-Claw) and associated training data and evaluation methods.

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Orchard is an open-source framework for scalable and cost-effective agentic AI research, built around Orchard Env, a reusable environment service for training and evaluating agents across task domains.
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Announced: 03 Aug 2026 16:00 UTC
Detected: 03 Aug 2026 21:12 UTC (+5h after)

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