Microsoft AI chief says the company beat OpenAI at its own game, using a quarter of the computing power
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Microsoft AI CEO said its latest AI model outperforms an OpenAI base model on certain pre-training metrics using a quarter of the compute.
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Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI.Stephen Brashear/Getty ImagesMicrosoft AI recently announced its latest model MAI-Base-2.AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman compared the model to a similar offering from OpenAI. Microsoft trained its model more efficiently than OpenAI, he said in an internal meeting. Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman told employees an in-house model was better than a similar offering from OpenAI, one of the software giant's biggest customers and partners. "We now have a stronger pre-trained base model than the model that currently powers GPT 5.6 Sol," Suleyman said during a town hall meeting with employees on Thursday. "And in fact, we used one-quarter of the compute that OpenAI used to train their model."Pre-training is the first stage of building an AI model, when it learns patterns from huge amounts of text, images, and other information. This takes massive amounts of expensive computing power, so Microsoft could save money if it's worked out a way to do this more…