Microsoft’s Fara1.5 AI outperforms OpenAI and Google in web tasks
Microsoft has released its Fara1.5 AI models, which outperform OpenAI and Google in web tasks. The flagship model scored 72% on a benchmark, significantly surpassing its competitors. This open-weight model allows developers to modify and deploy it on their own hardware, enhancing accessibility and performance.
- ▪The Fara1.5 family includes models with 4B, 9B, and 27B parameters.
- ▪The 27B variant scored 72% on the Online-Mind2Web benchmark, while OpenAI's Operator scored 58.3% and Google's Gemini 2.5 scored 57.3%.
- ▪Microsoft's previous model, Fara-7B, scored just 34.1% on the same benchmark, indicating a significant improvement in performance.
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Microsoft’s Fara1.5 AI outperforms OpenAI and Google in web tasks The open-weight browser agent nearly doubled its predecessor's benchmark score, beating proprietary models from OpenAI and Google on live-web tasks. Share Add us on Google by Editorial Team May. 22, 2026 window.sevioads = window.sevioads || []; var sevioads_preferences = []; sevioads_preferences[0] = {}; sevioads_preferences[0].zone = "01f21ccf-2092-46b1-9ac7-8c44cc782e0f"; sevioads_preferences[0].adType = "native"; sevioads_preferences[0].inventoryId = "c5700508-581b-472c-8fdd-a931cdbfc8e1"; sevioads_preferences[0].accountId = "1e47efc1-ec2d-4fca-a8b9-354e249e5095"; sevioads.push(sevioads_preferences); Microsoft Research just dropped a set of AI models that can browse the web better than anything OpenAI or Google has…
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