Microsoft
- Microsoft AI finishes MAI-Base-2 pre-training: 2.8T MoE, claims up to ~12× efficiency vs DeepSeek base
- A week of open weights: from a Flash bump to an 816B MoE, licenses and channels matter more than parameter counts
- Microsoft ThinkingBox tests what AI agents actually change, and whether they can repeat a success
- Microsoft releases streaming transcription and multilingual voice models with separate prices
- Microsoft Research introduces Quine, an AI research system for biology, and opens applications for a 16-week Quine Fellowship (deadline Nov. 2)