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RESEARCH · 1 SOURCE · Microsoft Research

Microsoft Research Asia open-sources Agent Lightning v1.0, a lightweight harnessed agentic RL framework

Microsoft Research Asia released Agent Lightning v1.0, a roughly 3,500-line open-source implementation of a Harnessed Agentic RL training paradigm that trains on the same agent harness used in deployment via an LLM proxy. The framework runs agents as native Kubernetes jobs, avoids reimplementing agent harnesses, and includes an end-to-end coding-agent example that raised Qwen3.5-9B’s Pass@1 on SWE-bench Verified from 41.8% to 56.4% using about 6,000 training samples.

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RESEARCH · 1 SOURCE · Microsoft Research

One year in: Microsoft Research Asia – Singapore reports progress on frontier AI and partnerships

Microsoft Research Asia – Singapore, Microsoft’s first research lab in Southeast Asia opened on July 24, 2025, says it has grown its team and deepened partnerships over its first year, focusing on next‑generation models and agentic systems, domain‑specific AI, AI‑native research practices, and ecosystem and talent development. The lab reports early deployments and partnerships in multimodal healthcare AI and self‑evolving diagnostic agents, collaboration with the Singapore Economic Development Board (including joint PhD training via the IPP), and alignment with Singapore’s National AI Strategy 2.0.

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