Microsoft has decided to temporarily pause the construction of a $3.3 billion data center in Mount Pleasant. The company stated the pause might last for months as it evaluates the scope and recent technological changes.

Microsoft enhances the capabilities of small language models (SLMs) with rStar-Math. The technique boosts the capabilities of SLMs, allowing them to compete or even surpass the math reasoning capability of OpenAI's o1 reasoning model.

These two men are of different generations (Gates is 69, Altman 39), and their companies presided over different revolutions. But Microsoft and OpenAI are coming together to offer some of the most relevant new services and capabilities to the market.

Phi-4 and an rStar-Math paper suggest that compact, specialized models can provide powerful alternatives to the industry’s largest systems.

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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has decided to temporarily pause construction on parts of its ambitious data center project in Mount Pleasant. What Happened: Earlier this week, the company said that it still plans to complete the first phase of the data center,

Microsoft promised its new Bing Image Creator model would deliver better quality. Now, it's rolling back the model after complaints.

Microsoft is cutting a small percentage of jobs across departments, based on performance, the company confirmed to CNBC on Wednesday.

Microsoft had to reverse a recent update to its Bing image generation model after users complain that their AI creations look worse than before.

Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, has launched its first standalone app for Grok, the chatbot designed to challenge giants like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard.