{
  "id": 14821472,
  "title": "Microsoft AI chief says the company beat OpenAI at its own game, using a quarter of the computing power",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/microsoft-ai-chief-says-the-company-beat-openai-at-its-own-game-using",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-15T23:31:44.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Business Insider",
    "slug": "business-insider",
    "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-ai-ceo-new-model-beats-openai-using-less-compute-2026-10"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "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.",
  "summary": "Microsoft AI CEO said its latest AI model outperforms an OpenAI base model on certain pre-training metrics using a quarter of the compute.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}