Microsoft AI chief says the company beat OpenAI at its own game, using a quarter of the computing power
Microsoft AI CEO said its latest AI model outperforms an OpenAI base model on certain pre-training metrics using a quarter of the compute.
Microsoft's AI chief, Mustafa Suleyman, asserted that the company outperformed OpenAI with its new model, MAI-Base-2, by using just a quarter of the computing power required by its rival. Suleyman revealed this information during an internal meeting with employees. The AI CEO claimed that MAI-Base-2 outperformed similar models from OpenAI, including one known as "Spud," which powers GPT-5.6.
Microsoft trained its model more efficiently, saving millions of dollars in computational costs. The comparison was based on technical details shared privately between the two companies, as Suleyman mentioned.
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