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Microsoft Claims It Beat OpenAI on a Quarter of the Fuel -- AI Brief October 16
Good day %%first_name%%. Microsoft says it built a better base model than the one behind GPT-5.6 on a quarter of the compute, and Amazon wants you wearing a $75 listening wearable. Plus Meta hands out the weights to Muse Spark Open, a Harvard survey on who bluffs about AI, and a Linux developer who got Claude to write drivers for hardware nobody documented. Let’s get into it.
Microsoft Says It Beat OpenAI Cheaper Business Insider
* What happened: At a Thursday town hall, Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman told employees that MAI-Base-2, announced earlier that day, is “a stronger pre-trained…
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