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Microsoft's Free AI Just Outpaced OpenAI and Google at Browsing the Web
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Imagine telling your computer to look up vacation rentals, compare five sites, fill out the booking form, and confirm the one closest to the beach.
Key facts
- Alibaba's GUI-Owl-1.5 at 8 billion parameters scored 48.6%
- OpenAI tried this first with Operator, launched in January 2025 at $200 a month before being folded into ChatGPT Agent and shut down in August
- On WebVoyager, a second benchmark measuring task success on the live web scored the same way, Fara1.5-27B hit 88.6%, edging OpenAI Operator's 87.0% and beating H Company's 30-billion-parameter Holo2
- Even Fara1.5-9B, the mid-sized model, hit 63.4%—ahead of both OpenAI and Google
Summary
Fara1.5-27B scored 72% on Online-Mind2Web, beating OpenAI Operator (58.3%) and Gemini 2.5 Computer Use (57.3%). The models are open-weight, come in 4 billion, 9 billion, and 27 billion parameter sizes, and are built on fine-tuned Qwen 3.5. Fara1.5-9B is live now on Azure AI Foundry; 4B and 27B arrive shortly. OpenAI tried this first with Operator, launched in January 2025 at $200 a month before being folded into ChatGPT Agent and shut down in August.