Comment by erikig
10 months ago
The multimodal capabilities especially on next action prediction are quite impressive; watching the github to see if & when they'll open source this: https://github.com/microsoft/Magma
Also, I wonder why they named it Magma?
I know that AWS have an AI product for foundational models called Bedrock so MS might've decided to go even deeper.
Wow
`M(ultimodal) Ag(ent) [ma]` maybe
Good catch! A minor correction: Magma - M(ultimodal) Ag(entic) M(odel) at M(icrosoft) (Rese)A(rch), the last part is similar to how the name Llama came out, :)
How many 'M's in "Magma"? ;)
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A bit sad that they reused name of https://icl.utk.edu/magma/ (Matrix Algebra on GPU and Multi-core Architectures). This library is already heavily used in machine learning, for example, it is included in every pytorch-based project.
From the news section of that github README:
> [2025.02.19] We will be releasing our code, model and UI navigation demo at MSR Forum on 02.25 next Tuesday!
looking at the paper some other agentic models they compared to were named LLaVA... maybe it's just a play on words