# Echoverse: Deep, evolving environments for computer-use agents

DevFeed: [Echoverse: Deep, evolving environments for computer-use agents](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/echoverse-deep-evolving-environments-for-computer-use-agents-6787.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/echoverse-deep-evolving-environments-for-computer-use-agents/>)

Author: Akshay Nambi, Yash Pandya, Sahil Gupta, Sarthak Harne, Kavyansh Chourasia, Yash Lara, Ahmed Awadallah

Published: 2026-07-30T17:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Microsoft Research](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/microsoft-research.md>)

Topics: [computer-use](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/computer-use.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Reinforcement learning](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/reinforcement-learning.md>), [datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/datasets.md>), [Microsoft](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/microsoft.md>)

Tags: [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agents.md>), [computer-use](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/computer-use.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/datasets.md>), [microsoft](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/microsoft.md>), [reinforcement-learning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reinforcement-learning.md>), [research](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/research.md>), [research-blog](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/research-blog.md>), [training](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/training.md>)

## AI overview

Echoverse presents twelve high-fidelity training worlds for computer-use agents, designed around realistic application behavior, coherent state, seeded data, and challenging interface controls. Training a 9B model on these environments substantially improved its score, while reinforcement learning with grounded verification helped it generalize and complete goals in fewer steps. Four worlds are released with code, data, and graders to support research.

## Source excerpt

Computer-use AI agents struggle with multi-step workflows like email and customer support. Echoverse trains agents in realistic environments rather than simply providing more training tasks, helping them improve as the tasks, tests, and environments evolve. The post Echoverse: Deep, evolving environments for computer-use agents appeared first on Microsoft Research.