Release6d ago
Microsoft FY27 Q1: Azure growth accelerates to 48%, Foundry revenue more than triples, and Agent 365 now governs 50M agents
On Oct 28, Microsoft reported results for its fiscal Q1 2027, the quarter ended Sep 30: revenue of $92.3B (+19%), Microsoft Cloud revenue of $63.9B (+30%), Azure growth accelerating from 42% last quarter to 48%, and commercial remaining performance obligation of $677B (+73%). CEO Satya Nadella added AI figures on X: Foundry revenue more than tripled year over year, revenue from open source models grew 10x, Copilot daily users grew nearly 50% quarter over quarter, and Agent 365 now holds over 50M agents. Separately, TechCrunch, citing Microsoft's regulatory filing, reports $10B of revenue from OpenAI-related commercial arrangements this quarter.
Release19d ago
Microsoft AI finishes pre-training MAI-Base-2: 2.8T-total / 80B-active MoE trained on 16K GB200s in 38 days, which MAI estimates is 4.2–12.3x more FLOPs-efficient than DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Base
On 2026-10-15 Microsoft AI published a technical post and PDF saying it has finished pre-training its in-house base model MAI-Base-2: MoE in every layer (1 shared + 7-of-512 routed experts), 80B active / 2.8T total, 102 layers, native encoder-free vision, a 50T-token mixture and a March 2026 knowledge cutoff. Per MAI, it beats every open-weight model tested on held-out BPB and its recipe is 4.2–12.3x more pre-training-FLOPs-efficient than DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Base. It is still in post-training: no API, no weights and no release date yet; Microsoft plans to license weights to trusted partners via Foundry.
Release25d ago
Microsoft launches Microsoft-Decision-1: a Qwen3.5-9B-based decision-scoring model at $0.042/M input tokens, free output, on Foundry and OpenRouter
On Oct 9 Microsoft released Microsoft-Decision-1, a decision-scoring model that returns calibrated probabilities over fixed options instead of generating text, aimed at routing, classification, verification, agent guardrails and AI judging. Microsoft reports top accuracy across 36 blind benchmarks, ~35x lower P50 latency than GPT-6 Sol and a 1.3% decision-flip rate under perturbation. Available on Microsoft Foundry and OpenRouter, 32K context, $0.042/M input, free output.
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