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AI cartoon by Zimbo: Caricature of Mustafa Suleyman proudly presenting a colossal cable-tangled artificial brain on a server pedestal stenciled '¼ COMPUTE,' its power meter glowing only one quarter — on Microsoft's MAI-Base-2 unveiling and the claim it beat OpenAI on a quarter of the compute. — Microsoft finished pre-training MAI-Base-2 — an MoE model with 80 billion active and 2.8 trillion total parameters — and Mustafa Suleyman bragged it beat OpenAI 'at its own game, using a quarter of the computing power.'Zimbo for AI News Page

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Microsoft AI: Frontier Pre-training at Microsoft AI
Business Insider: Microsoft AI chief says the company beat OpenAI at its own game, using a quarter of the computing power

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