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The New York Times 2 months ago 35 ● 8 sources
Meta is in talks to lease computing power to Anthropic in a deal potentially valued at $10 billion over two years. The agreement would include monthly payments and early exit options, with the deal structured to begin in June. Meta would generate revenue from excess GPU capacity while it waits for demand for its own AI services to increase.
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17 October 2026
Microsoft’s MAI-Base-2 announcement sets the pace for the day, shifting attention from flashy model demos to the plumbing that makes large language models practical. The 2T-parameter base model is designed to become a full LLM after additional training, with 80B parameters activated per prompt. Microsoft says it trained the model for 38 days on 16,000 Nvidia GB200 chips using 50T tokens, and that MAI-Base-2 is up to 12× more hardware-efficient. The company’s licensing plan—availability through “trusted partners” on Azure—signals a platform strategy: build a reusable foundation that can spawn multiple task-specific LLM lines, rather than betting everything on a single downstream model.
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