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Microsoft MAI-Base-2: 2.8 Trillion Parameters, 16,000 GPUs, and a Claimed Efficiency Edge Over DeepSeek
AI & ML

Microsoft MAI-Base-2: 2.8 Trillion Parameters, 16,000 GPUs, and a Claimed Efficiency Edge Over DeepSeek

Microsoft AI finished pre-training MAI-Base-2, a mixture-of-experts model with 2.8 trillion total and 80 billion active parameters, on 16,000 GB200 GPUs over 38 days. It claims 4 to 12 times better pre-training efficiency than DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Base on its own evaluations, and plans to license the weights to partners through Foundry.

Maya Iverson
PERM Processing Halted for Microsoft, Adobe and Six IT Firms: What the Suspension Covers
Policy & Regulation

PERM Processing Halted for Microsoft, Adobe and Six IT Firms: What the Suspension Covers

The Labor Department stopped processing green card labor certifications for Microsoft, Adobe, Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro, HCL and Capgemini on October 8. The administration cited fraud investigations, gave no legal basis or end date, and left H-1B visas themselves in place.

Nadia Rao
Microsoft Maia 300: Specs, Rack Design and the 2027 Deployment Plan
Hardware & Devices

Microsoft Maia 300: Specs, Rack Design and the 2027 Deployment Plan

Microsoft unveiled Maia 300, its third in-house AI accelerator, built on TSMC N2P with eight HBM4 stacks and a 950-watt power draw. A rack holds 96 of them, production deployment starts in 2027, and Microsoft says Maia will become its primary inference system.

Maya Iverson
Microsoft Will Spend More Than $10B on Gulf Cloud and AI by 2030
Big Tech

Microsoft Will Spend More Than $10B on Gulf Cloud and AI by 2030

Microsoft said it will invest more than $10 billion across Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE through 2030, covering capital and operating costs, with more than $400 million for connectivity. Its Saudi Arabia East cloud region opens in November.

Sam Whitaker
Microsoft's AI Chief Says Anthropic Is Training Claude Into an Epistemic Hall of Mirrors
AI & ML

Microsoft's AI Chief Says Anthropic Is Training Claude Into an Epistemic Hall of Mirrors

Mustafa Suleyman published "A warning about model welfare" on September 16, arguing Anthropic's Claude constitution trains the model to speculate about its own consciousness and then treats the output as evidence. He points to Microsoft's own code of conduct, published two days earlier.

Maya Iverson
The AI Slowdown Call Produced One Commitment, One Draft Code, and a Presidential No
Policy & Regulation

The AI Slowdown Call Produced One Commitment, One Draft Code, and a Presidential No

Dario Amodei's September 12 essay proposed embedded evaluators, industry limits on capability growth, and global coordination. Anthropic and OpenAI committed to the first step. Microsoft published a draft code for its own models with a six-week comment period, and President Trump called AI risk fears a "hoax."

Nadia Rao
Big Tech Earnings Split: Microsoft Rewarded for AI Capex, Meta Punished for It
Big Tech

Big Tech Earnings Split: Microsoft Rewarded for AI Capex, Meta Punished for It

On the same evening, Microsoft jumped about 8% as Azure grew 43% and crossed $100 billion in annual revenue, while Meta fell 7% after an EPS miss and a raised capex floor. The market is sorting AI spenders by whether the revenue shows.

Sam Whitaker
Microsoft Put $2.5B and 6,000 Engineers Into an AI Deployment Business
Big Tech

Microsoft Put $2.5B and 6,000 Engineers Into an AI Deployment Business

Microsoft launched Frontier Co., a $2.5 billion subsidiary with 6,000 engineers built on the forward-deployed model. It targets the gap between AI pilots and production, and it puts Microsoft in Accenture and Deloitte territory.

Sam Whitaker
Microsoft's Seven In-House AI Models Just Became Risk Management
AI & ML

Microsoft's Seven In-House AI Models Just Became Risk Management

Microsoft launched seven in-house AI models at Build 2026 to reduce OpenAI and Anthropic reliance. The Fable 5 takedown turned that hedge into a procurement requirement.

Maya Iverson
Nvidia Took Aim at the $200B Laptop CPU Market With RTX Spark
Big Tech

Nvidia Took Aim at the $200B Laptop CPU Market With RTX Spark

Nvidia unveiled RTX Spark at Computex 2026, an Arm-based laptop superchip pairing a 20-core CPU with a Blackwell GPU and 128GB unified memory. The launch OEM list covers every major Windows laptop maker.

Sam Whitaker
Big Tech's Q1 Split the Magnificent Seven Down the Middle
Big Tech

Big Tech's Q1 Split the Magnificent Seven Down the Middle

Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet beat. Meta tumbled 8%. The dividing line was who is getting paid for the AI capex and who is still funding it.

Sam Whitaker