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OpenAI 11 months ago 30
Microsoft and OpenAI have signed a new agreement to extend their partnership and expand their joint work on AI development. The deal includes continued investment and commitments to building AI systems responsibly over a multi-year period. The partnership will allow both companies to pursue larger-scale AI research while maintaining governance structures for safe deployment.
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17 October 2026
Microsoft used today’s announcement to zoom in on what matters in scaling: not just raw capability, but the plumbing behind it. The company revealed MAI-Base-2, a 2T-parameter base model designed to be converted into full LLMs with additional training. Per Microsoft, only 80B parameters activate per prompt, and the training run ate 50T tokens over 38 days using 16,000 Nvidia GB200 GPUs. The headline claim: MAI-Base-2 is up to 12× more hardware-efficient than its predecessors, a metric that will matter to anyone trying to keep inference costs from swallowing margin.
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