Microsoft’s Free AI Just Beat OpenAI and Google at Browsing the Web

In brief

• 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…