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October 2026

  1. MAI-Base-2MicrosoftIn trainingFrontierCopy the link to this entry

    Pre-training finished: 2.8 trillion parameters, 80 billion active per token. Now in post-training, with no release date. Microsoft says it beats every open-weight model it tested and plans to license the weights to trusted partners.

    Microsoft finishes pre-training its 2.8T MAI-Base-2 model

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