Microsoft Unveils 2.8 Trillion-Parameter AI Model, Claims Major Efficiency Gains

Base-2, a 2.8 trillion-parameter AI model, claiming major training efficiency gains as it expands its independent AI strategy ...
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Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon launch PRAISE AI training program

Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon launch PRAISE, an AI training program that helps junior software engineers develop practical ...
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Microsoft finishes pre-training MAI-Base-2, its next in-house foundation model

Base-2, the next foundation model from its in-house AI group. Pre-training is the most compute-intensive stretch of building ...

Thailand Becomes First to Launch Microsoft’s 19-Country AI Jobs Initiative

Microsoft launches its 19-country AI jobs initiative in Thailand, connecting workforce training, AI credentials, and employer ...

Microsoft AI chief says the company beat OpenAI at its own game, using a quarter of the computing power

Microsoft AI CEO said its latest AI model outperforms an OpenAI base model on certain pre-training metrics using a quarter of ...
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Microsoft claims its Web IQ AI search is 2.5x faster than the competition

Microsoft says AI agents need current web evidence and claims Web IQ delivers better grounding quality, faster retrieval, and ...
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Microsoft Research Introduces StudentSim for AI Tutor Training

In an October 12, 2026 announcement, Microsoft Research introduced StudentSim, a research system that builds a personalized ...

Microsoft’s AI Chief Says It Built a Better Model Than OpenAI’s With a Quarter of the Computing Power

Microsoft's AI chief told staff the company quietly trained a model that outperforms a key partner's flagship system at a ...

Microsoft AI unveils 2.8 trillion-parameter model, claims efficiency gains

Microsoft has completed pre-training a new AI model with 2.8 trillion total parameters, saying it outperformed every open-weight model it tested while requiring up to 12 times less computing power to ...