Microsoft joins Google in backing Go for AI agents — OpenAI and Anthropic lag (thenewstack.io)

Microsoft has announced that its Agent Framework is now available for Go developers, enhancing their ability to build AI agents within a familiar programming environment. This move aligns Microsoft with Google, which already supports Go in its own AI agent development toolkit. The Agent Framework for Go allows developers to leverage a range of capabilities including support for various AI models, tool-calling functions, and multi-agent coordination, thereby facilitating the creation of complex, production-grade AI systems. This development is significant for the AI/ML community as it fills a gap in agent tooling for Go, one of the most popular languages for cloud infrastructure and services. With this launch, Microsoft caters directly to a substantial base of Go developers who previously relied on unofficial libraries or other languages like Python for AI integrations. Meanwhile, industry leaders OpenAI and Anthropic have yet to support Go in their agent offerings, leaving them behind in a rapidly evolving landscape where first-party support for widely used programming languages is becoming increasingly crucial for developer adoption and innovation.