MAI-2 is 2x bigger than V4-Pro while V4.1F is 3x smaller: Microsoft's scaling ladder questioned
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-16
The author notes DeepSeek's V4.1F is 3x smaller than V4-Pro while Microsoft's MAI-2 is 2x larger, questioning whether Microsoft's "scaling ladder" bought much efficiency. The accompanying table shows MAI-2 trails DS-V4-Pro by only 4.3-7.9% across code/QA/STEM/math — comparable to DS-V4.1-Flash's gaps vs V4-Pro at similar size ranges, so one set of gaps is meaningful only if the other is.
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