Microsoft unveils MAI-Base-2, a MoE model with 2.8T total and 80B active parameters, claiming 4x-12x more pretraining FLOPs-efficiency than DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Base (Microsoft AI)

Microsoft AI: Microsoft unveils MAI-Base-2, a MoE model with 2.8T total and 80B active parameters, claiming 4x-12x more pretraining FLOPs-efficiency than DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Base  —  In June, we announced MAI-Thinking-1, a general-purpose foundation model post-trained on top of MAI-Base-1 with strong reasoning performance.