Microsoft Ai

Microsoft unveils MAI-Base-2 MoE with 2.8T total, 80B active parameters: Microsoft unveiled MAI-Base-2, a mixture-of-experts model with 2.8T total and 80B active parameters. It claims 4x-12x more pretraining FLOPs-efficiency than DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Base. Microsoft also cited MAI-Thinking-1, a general-purpose foundation model post-trained on MAI-Base-1 announced in June.

AI Models • Techmeme

Microsoft researchers say new machine learning tool improves weather forecasts 2-6 weeks ahead: Microsoft researchers say they found a new, cost-effective machine learning tool that improves weather forecasts two to six weeks ahead. The company claims it addresses reliability drops beyond two weeks in physics-based and existing AI models, helping farmers and emergency responders.

Microsoft • The Verge AI