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microsoft/Magma

[CVPR 2025] Magma: A Foundation Model for Multimodal AI Agents observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/microsoft/Magma · Python · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

53/100

  • Activity 70
  • Release rhythm 35
  • Longevity 46

Flags: no_releases

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 649
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 184
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1937 stars · 163 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Magma is Microsoft Research's foundation model for multimodal AI agents, released as an 8B vision-language model that understands images and videos and generates goal-driven action plans. The repository provides model weights, inference code, and training tooling for agentic tasks across digital UIs and physical environments.

Use cases

  • build a UI navigation agent that clicks through apps and websites
  • control a robot arm for manipulation tasks from visual input
  • run spatial reasoning and video understanding on images and video
  • fine-tune a multimodal agent model on my own agentic trajectories
  • evaluate a single model across GUI, robotics, and VQA benchmarks

When to choose

  • you need one multimodal model that spans UI navigation, robotics, and image/video understanding
  • you want a research-grade open-weights VLM agent foundation with MIT licensing
  • you're reproducing or extending CVPR 2025 agentic AI research

When to avoid

  • you need a lightweight model for CPU-only or edge deployment
  • you want a production-ready turnkey agent product rather than a research model
  • your task is text-only and doesn't benefit from vision

Facets

library · maturity active

machine-learning deep-learning agent-framework computer-vision nlp artificial-intelligence computer-vision large-language-models robotics python multimodal foundation-model ui-navigation robot-manipulation vision-language-model cvpr-2025 ai-agents gpu linux

1 source

Member repositories

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