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Microsoft reports MAI-Base-2 pre-training complete
Reported completed pre-training of MAI-Base-2 on October 15; the model was still in post-training, with no public weights or general availability announced.
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Microsoft
✓ VerifiedMicrosoft’s AI position comes from product and cloud distribution at scale, not just model development, which makes it one of the most durable deployment players on the board.
Redmond, USFounded 1975API accessDaily review target
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Editorial focus
Completed pre-training of MAI-Base-2, an 80B-active/2.8T-total parameter MoE model, by October 15, 2026; it remains in post-training.
Focus: Platform-scale AI systems across copilots, cloud, and small language models
Latest funding
Not tracked
No structured event
Tracked funding
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No structured events
Latest valuation
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No source-backed record
Latest revenue
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Deployment lifecycle position
Editorially verified updates
What changed
model release
Launched MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming for real-time transcription in 60 languages, plus MAI-Voice-2.1 and…
Launched MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming for real-time transcription in 60 languages, plus MAI-Voice-2.1 and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash on October 1, 2026.
Microsoft · Read source ↗Added to map Oct 10, 2026
product update
Announced a redesigned Copilot app combining Home, Code and Autopilot on September 25, 2026
Announced a redesigned Copilot app combining Home, Code and Autopilot on September 25, 2026; Autopilot is the renamed Scout agent.
Microsoft · Read source ↗Added to map Oct 10, 2026
api platform
Microsoft brings GPT-6 Astra to Foundry
Microsoft made GPT-6 Astra generally available in Microsoft Foundry for enterprise agentic workflows with Azure identity, networking, governance, and deployment controls.
Microsoft Azure · Read source ↗Added to map Sep 3, 2026
External coverage of Microsoft
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Last checked Oct 18, 2026.
Microsoft · Primary source
Oct 17, 2026
InfoWorld · Reporting
Oct 13, 2026
Microsoft Azure · Primary source
Oct 13, 2026
Source-backed financial history
Funding and financial history
Funding, valuation, revenue, and debt are kept separate so unlike measurements are never presented as one trend.
A structured financial history has not been completed for Microsoft.
The profile will not manufacture a trend from incomplete or unsourced figures. Each amount must be dated, typed, and linked to public evidence first.
Product surface
Products and model families
Recent models
Fara1.5-4BFara1.5-9BFara1.5-27BMagenticBrainPhi-4-reasoning-visionPhi-4-reasoningPhi-4-multimodalMAI-Transcribe-2-StreamingMAI-Voice-2.1MAI-Voice-2.1-FlashMAI-Base-2 (in post-training)
Products
Microsoft CopilotCopilot CoworkCopilot StudioMicrosoft FoundryAzure AI infrastructureGitHub Copilot
Open weights
Yes
API access
Yes
Review target
Daily
Market position
Lifecycle and strategic signals
Research
Preview
Growth
Deployment
Deployment: Production & at scale
Focus
Platform-scale AI systems across copilots, cloud, and small language models
Signals
Cloud distributionCopilotsSmall modelsComputer useLocal agents
Taxonomy
Open Weight LabsMedia ModelsVertical + EnterpriseCodingDeveloper toolsInfrastructure
Competitive context
Amazon AGI / NovaGoogle DeepMindOpenAI
Infrastructure & distribution
Where Microsoft sits in the AI stack
01
Model layer
11 tracked model families
02
Access layer
Managed API + self-hostable weights
03
Market layer
Frontier Labs
Public product surface
Microsoft CopilotCopilot CoworkCopilot StudioMicrosoft FoundryAzure AI infrastructureGitHub Copilot
Stack signals
CodingEnterpriseDeveloper toolsInfrastructureCloud distributionCopilotsSmall modelsComputer use
This section reflects publicly visible product and access signals. Undisclosed GPU, cloud, training, and data-center contracts are not inferred.
Evidence trail
Sources and corrections
Primary and public sources used to verify the structured company profile.
Microsoft AIofficialAzure AI infrastructure expansionofficialMagenticLite, MagenticBrain, and Fara1.5officialMicrosoft Foundry GPT-6 AstraofficialMicrosoft Copilot newsofficialpartner.microsoft.com — ai at work marketing momentofficialmicrosoft.ai — our first streaming transcription modelofficialMicrosoft review sourceofficial
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