Microsoft research partner John Langford has left the company after the AI Frontiers group was dissolved. Founded in 2023 and employing about 50 people, this division has developed reliable artificial intelligence agents (including projects such as AutoGen and Fara); In September 2026 it was transferred to Microsoft AI. Langford explained his departure by the fact that the management of the company prefers quantitative data at the expense of basic research, which for its innovations did not find a real way of practical application.