Launch · Saturday 17 October 2026 · story 9
Microsoft introduces MAI-Base-2 base model with 2 trillion parameters
SiliconANGLE reports that Microsoft detailed MAI-Base-2, a base model with 2 trillion parameters that uses 80 billion per prompt. Microsoft said it beat DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Base on internal science, programming and math tests and can be up to 12 times more hardware-efficient.
Why it matters. For agent builders, this points to a Microsoft base model that may offer better benchmark performance with less hardware.
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