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Microsoft Research's Xinzhi Zhang and Zhao Song proved the 1995 KLS conjecture in high-dimensional geometry, with AI agents exploring 100+ approaches under human direction.
In a Science study, Microsoft AI's MAI-DxO diagnosed 83% of complex NEJM cases correctly, vs 36% for generalist physicians, in a controlled text-only benchmark.
Microsoft AI finished pre-training MAI-Base-2, a 2.8-trillion-parameter MoE foundation model it says is 4–12× more compute-efficient than DeepSeek's strongest open base model.
Microsoft unveiled Maia 300 on Oct 12, 2026: up to 7× Maia 200 rack throughput, ~40% more tokens per megawatt vs leading GPUs, with production deployments in 2027.
