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Sam Murley retweeted
That's why you never bet against Elon Musk.
I'm just curious to see how they'll try to turn this into a bad thing.
Sam Murley retweeted
Big throw. Big catch. Big W.
@Hankb_15 🤝 @reece_vanderzee
Sam Murley retweeted
Any pursuit of superintelligence has to be grounded in the core principle that if the AI we build is not helping humanity and under human control, it's not worth pursuing.
We also need to accelerate and spread the benefits of AI, such that they are diffused broadly across countries, communities, and companies. This requires a frontier ecosystem in which both closed and open-source models can thrive.
And for firms, it’s imperative that they retain full control over their unique and tacit knowledge. Every organization should be able to build its own continuous learning loop/hill climbing machine, without becoming dependent on any one model provider, and have the ability to embed its own knowledge into models and weights they control.
So, in this context, we welcome the research, focus, and deliberate pacing needed to get alignment right as the design goal. We also welcome ideas like "embedded evaluators" and the broader efforts to develop the mechanisms to make this more than just talk.
The key is that this cannot be controlled by a handful of entities, but must have broad representation across the ecosystem, countries, and fields, including academia.
This is the approach we are taking: broad access and choice at every layer of the AI stack; enterprise control of learning loops and models; and the “Code of Conduct” that underlies our own first party MAI models that we’ll publish tomorrow for public consultation.
Sam Murley retweeted
Bennett Stirtz’s journey:
• 0⭐️ recruit
• DII Northwest Missouri State
• Followed Ben McCollum to Drake
• Led Drake to its first NCAA Tournament win since 1970
• Followed BMC to Iowa
• Led Iowa to its first Elite Eight since 1987
Now, he’s a first-round pick.
Sam Murley retweeted
Sim City 2000 from 1993.
This game was absolutely mind blowing at the time.
Did you play this classic?
Sam Murley retweeted
🚨 do you understand what just happened to Microsoft..
Microsoft just dropped seven of its own MAI models, trained from scratch with zero distillation, and said its custom-tuned models already match GPT-tier quality at 10x lower cost.
The partner that pays OpenAI's bills is now quietly building the thing that replaces it.
- MAI-Thinking-1 hits human-preference parity with Sonnet 4.6 and 53% on SWE Bench Pro, right next to Opus 4.6
- MAI-Code-1-Flash delivers Haiku-class coding at just 5B params and is already shipping inside GitHub Copilot
- A custom MAI model tuned for Excel matched GPT-5.4 while running up to 10x more efficiently
- Their real weapon isn't the weights, it's that they're already inside everyone's Office, Teams, and VS Code
The hard part was never training a good model. The hard part is being the room everyone already works in. Microsoft owns the room.
Super excited to announce seven new world-class MAI models today. They represent what we consider a new era in AI designed to keep you in control and on the frontier.
First is our text foundation model, MAI-Thinking-1, exceptionally strong on reasoning and SWE tasks.
- It’s a 35B active parameter MoE with a 256K context window. Independent human raters on Surge prefer it for overall quality in blind side-by-sides versus Sonnet 4.6, and it’s achieved 97% on AIME 2025, the key measure of its general-purpose reasoning abilities.
- It's at 53% on SWE Bench Pro, placing it right alongside Opus 4.6 on one of the toughest coding benchmarks.
- And since we co-designed our models with our own silicon, MAI-Thinking-1 is optimized on our MAIA 200 chip. Benchmarking head-to-head against the GB200, we see 30% better performance per dollar as well as a 1.4x performance-per-watt gain when running our MAI models on the MAIA 200 end-to-end.
Next is MAI-Image-2.5 and its Flash variant. Two super strong models now at #2 on the leaderboards, surpassing the score of Nano Banana 2 on image editing.
Last for now is MAI-Code-1-Flash, our new inference efficient coding model, especially tuned for VS Code and GitHub Copilot CLI.
- Code-1-Flash achieves 51% on SWE Bench Pro, despite having just 5B parameters, putting it closer to Haiku in size but cheaper in cost.
All of this is the foundation for Microsoft Frontier Tuning. It lets you customize our models to create custom, company-specific agents that only you control. You can make our model, your model. Your data. Your agents. Your moat.
Early adopters are already seeing a difference. When we tuned our models for McKinsey’s tasks, MAI delivered the highest win rate, outperforming GPT-5.5 on quality, while being 10x lower on cost.
Also really excited to be collaborating with the amazing team at Mayo Clinic to jointly train a new frontier AI model for healthcare.
Our announcements today mark another milestone on the road to humanist superintelligence. You can learn more and about our other new models in our latest blog: microsoft.ai/news/building-a…
Sam Murley retweeted
100 years from now, when all the vicissitudes of politics, social media, etc. in 2024 are long forgotten, people will still remember this as a milestone in humanity’s conquest of space.
Sam Murley retweeted
Just in time for #PrimeDay… the all-new Echo Spot smart alarm clock with Alexa. A beautiful full color display shows the info you want at a glance like time, weather, and music, all with vibrant sound from our directional speaker. You can also personalize your experience with different color themes and clock face designs. Sometimes the little things make all the difference in starting your day 😉 aboutamazon.com/news/devices…
Sam Murley retweeted
Venture capital has arguably been one of the highest-performing investments for the past 25 years. But for most investors, it was out of reach.
Now, you can invest in some of the world's top tech companies, including those leading the AI revolution, before they go public.
Sam Murley retweeted
All eyes on the #Hawkeyes 👀
Saturday’s Iowa-Maryland game averaged 1.58M viewers in primetime, the most-watched women's basketball game in the history of Fox Sports.
@IowaWBB has now played in three of the five most-watched women's college basketball games this season to date.
H/T @richarddeitsch
