MICROSOFT 🔥: MAI-Base-2 pre-training has been completed; MAI-Base-3 training cycle is already being prepared as well.

> "MAI-Base-2 outperforms every open-weight model we tested on our held-out evaluations. It is 4-12x more pre-training FLOPs-efficient than the strongest open base model, DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Base (see Figure 3 below), and we have put that saving into training a larger model."

* Figure 1 shows the performance of MAI-Base-2 and other models with at least one trillion total parameters across a range of pre-training evaluations (lower is better).