Microsoft Just Dropped FARA and It Puts Pressure on OpenAI

Microsoft just dropped FARA-7B and it pushes AI agents into a completely new lane. At the same time, MBZUAI released PAN, a world model that remembers past steps, updates a persistent internal state, and rolls out long simulations that feel continuous instead of reset clips. It uses Qwen2.5-VL for reasoning, a Wan2.1 video decoder, and a chunk-based causal refinement loop that keeps objects stable over long horizons.
Credit to : AI Revolution