Microsoft AI chief says in-house model beats OpenAI's using quarter of compute
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman told employees that the company's in-house model MAI-Base-2 outperforms OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol while using only one-quarter of the computing power for training. He made the claim during a town hall meeting on Thursday, adding that the model also used 12 times less computation than DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Base for pre-training. Microsoft announced MAI-Base-2 earlier the…
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- Microsoft claims MAI-Base-2 outperforms OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol
- Training used one-quarter of the compute OpenAI used for its model
- Model also used 12 times less computation than DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Base
Microsoft AI chief says the company beat OpenAI at its own game, using a quarter of the computing power
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