Building a listed tool
Xiaoyi Zhang
Microsoft Mage Team; first author of the Mage-VL-Cowork technical report, named behind the Mage-VL-Cowork listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Xiaoyi builds
Mage-VL-Cowork C · Desktop & mobile app control
Mage-VL-Cowork is Microsoft's open-weight 4B computer-use model. It reads desktop screenshots and answers each turn with either mouse and keyboard actions or a shell command, built on Mage-VL, under Apache 2.0.
Microsoft Mage Team; first author of the Mage-VL-Cowork technical report, researched 30 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Aaron J. Li First author of TokenEconomizer, UC Berkeley
- Acar Tamersoy Co-author of TokenEconomizer, Microsoft Security
- Achint Srivastava VP of Software Engineering, Office of the CTO; Decision-1 launch author
- Bill Gates Co-founder and technical adviser, Microsoft
- Bin Yu Co-author of TokenEconomizer, UC Berkeley
- Chandan Singh Co-author of TokenEconomizer, Microsoft Research
- Charlotte Siska Co-author of TokenEconomizer, Microsoft Security
- Dan Hellem Principal Product Manager, Azure DevOps
- Darrel Miller Partner API Architect
- Eric Imasogie Senior Product Manager; Microsoft Learn MCP server owner
- Ion Stoica Co-author of TokenEconomizer, UC Berkeley
- Jeevana Priya Inala Co-author of TokenEconomizer, Microsoft Research
- Jianfeng Gao Co-author of TokenEconomizer, Microsoft Research
- Julie Strauss Vice President, AI Sales, Marketing and Incubations
- Kevin Scott Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft
- Michel Galley Co-author of TokenEconomizer, Microsoft Research
- Paul Allen Co-founder, Microsoft, left day-to-day work there in 1983
- Pieter de Bruin Technical Program Manager; Learn partnerships and MCP integrations
- Sandeep K Sen Product Manager, Azure MCP and CoreAI
- Satya Nadella Chairman and CEO, Microsoft
- Shawn Henry Principal Group Product Manager; Product Lead, Microsoft Agent Framework
- Tianqi Zhang Principal Software Engineering Manager; Learn knowledge-discovery and MCP team
- Weijia Xu Co-author of TokenEconomizer, Microsoft Research
- Yury Semikhatsky Principal Software Engineer; active Playwright MCP maintainer
Questions
Who is Xiaoyi Zhang?
Xiaoyi Zhang is microsoft Mage Team; first author of the Mage-VL-Cowork technical report.
What does Microsoft make?
Anchor Terminal lists Mage-VL-Cowork from Microsoft. Mage-VL-Cowork is Microsoft's open-weight 4B computer-use model. It reads desktop screenshots and answers each turn with either mouse and keyboard actions or a shell command, built on Mage-VL, under Apache 2.0.
How are Xiaoyi's tools graded?
Mage-VL-Cowork is graded C, 61 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
Sources (9)
- https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Mage-VL-Cowork
- https://huggingface.co/api/models/microsoft/Mage-VL-Cowork/commits/main
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/Mage/main/README.md
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/Mage/main/SECURITY.md
- https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/leadership/bill-gates
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Allen
- https://news.microsoft.com/source/exec/satya-nadella/
- https://news.microsoft.com/source/exec/kevin-scott/
- https://news.microsoft.com/source/leadership/
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