Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft aims to become “one of the top four labs in the world”, and “the pivotal moment was renegotiating our contract with OpenAI”
At Microsoft's annual Build conference on Tuesday, the company announced a slew of new or expanded AI initiatives …
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Discussion
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@haydenfield
Hayden Field
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For years, Microsoft's AI business leaned hard on its exclusive relationship with OpenAI. But the drama-filled partnership devolved into a situationship — and then a separation. AI chief Mustafa Suleyman said the new freedom changes everything. Gift link:https://www.theverge.com/…
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@quinnypig
Corey Quinn
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Imagine being the fourth-best AI lab and announcing it as your ambition rather than the unfortunate quarterly result.
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@tomwarren.co.uk
Tom Warren
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Microsoft and OpenAI broke up — now they're ready to fight. Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman tells me “the goal is to prove that we can become one of the top four labs in the world.” Interview from me and deep analysis from @haydenfield.bsky.social 👇 www.theverge.com/ai-artifi…
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@eliebakouch
Elie
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microsoft MAI tech report is a gold mine, one of the most transparent for a model at this scale. this model uses zero synthetic data or distillation from previous models. this means reasoning, agentic behavior, tool use are all learned fully during post-training with no cold [ima…
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@microsoftai
@microsoftai
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We're excited to work with @Baseten to make MAI-Thinking-1 available to developers and enterprises.
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@hannahajishirzi
Hanna Hajishirzi
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MAI-Thinking-1 is out! Excited to share what we are building and how climbing from scratch (no distillation) actually works: simple recipes, rigorous science, self-distillation, patience, and great infra. Check out our tech report has the full story of our RL climbs. [image]
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@kylelostat
Kyle Lo
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happy to share another quality tech report w/ the wider research community 🫶 great read for ppl who want to see all the details for methods + infra for scaling up pretraining & RL, esp detailed discussion about data which is often kept vague by other labs [image]
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@scaling01
@scaling01
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Microsoft introduces MAI-Thinking-1 It's a 1T@35B parameter model pre-trained on 30T tokens with a maximum context length of 256k tokens using 8192 GB200 GPUs. Based on benchmarks it seems to be around GLM-5 level. Microsoft also released a comprehensive 109 pages tech-report: [i…
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@microsoftai
@microsoftai
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MAI-Thinking-1: A powerful reasoning model developed from scratch that is competitive with models of similar size on STEM reasoning and coding tasks. Our pre-training focused on a simple scaling emphasizing data-driven iterative improvements to our architecture and data. Our [ima…
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@tyleraromero
Tyler Romero
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We've released MAI-Thinking-1! This is @MicrosoftAI's first general-purpose reasoning model. The team has also published a tech report detailing the interesting science and engineering work behind it. [image]
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@soldni
Luca Soldaini
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Climbing with no distillation, like the Big Boys do, has been super fun! Read the tech report for a taste of our ̶s̶u̶f̶f̶e̶r̶i̶n̶g̶ journey [image]
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@tuhinone
Tuhin Srivastava
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Today we're announcing MAI-Thinking-1 with Microsoft and it will be available on Baseten soon. Microsoft built something genuinely different here: a commercial-grade thinking model trained on clean data with no distillation from third-party models and designed to be fine-tuned [i…
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@baseten
@baseten
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Today, Baseten and @MicrosoftAI are excited to announce that MAI-Thinking-1 is coming to Baseten. MAI-Thinking-1 is a model you can fine-tune without giving your data to the lab. Key characteristics include: → Clean data lineage, with zero distillation from third-party models [im…
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@bindureddy
Bindu Reddy
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Finally, Microsoft enters the AI arena! They just announced two foundation models - MAI and Mai-Flash They used to have a great research lab... and early benchmarks look good 🚀🚀 [image]
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@eliebakouch
Elie
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WOW microsoft new “MAI Thinking 1” model comes with a 109 page tech report that looks REALLY detailed, this is amazing [image]
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@tomwarren
Tom Warren
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Microsoft is announcing MAI-Thinking-1 today, its first advanced reasoning AI model. It's built for math and coding primarily, and is part of 7 new AI models Microsoft is launching today. Details 👇 https://www.theverge.com/...
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@microh
@microh
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Another thing Microsoft executives can complain about you not using. [embedded post]
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@markriedl
Mark Riedl
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Microsoft could have been building its own models, but has relied on GPT. Now that OpenAI and Microsoft are going separate ways, Microsoft has a lot of catching up to do www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...