Microsoft launches Fara-7B, a lightweight AI for web automation
Microsoft just dropped Fara-7B, a small but mighty AI model that helps automate web tasks right on your device—no cloud needed.
With 7 billion parameters and training from Microsoft's own FaraGen data pipeline, it can handle screenshots to get things done.
It performs impressively too, scoring 73.5% on WebVoyager and 38.4% on WebTailBench.
What makes Fara-7B stand out?
Fara-7B is super efficient—it processes big tasks for about $0.025 each, which is 10 times cheaper than models like GPT-4 or O3 reasoning models.
You can download it free from Microsoft Foundry or Hugging Face, and there's even a version tuned for Windows 11 Copilot+ PCs.
How does it actually work?
Trained with data spanning 70,000 websites (all checked by AI judges), Fara-7B makes decisions based on screenshots—helping it beat other models its size while keeping up with bigger AIs.
If you want fast, local automation without breaking the bank, this one's worth checking out!