Microsoft AI CEO claims its model beats OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 using less compute: Why he said so

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman has claimed that the company's in-house artificial intelligence model outperforms the pre-trained base model powering OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol while using just a quarter of the computing resources. Suleyman made the remarks during a town hall meeting with Microsoft employees on Thursday (October 15), according to a report by Business Insider. He said, according to the news outlet, Microsoft's model had performed better than OpenAI's in internal tests designed to evaluate how effectively AI systems understand and predict patterns in information."We now have a stronger pre-trained base model than the model that currently powers GPT 5.6 Sol," Suleyman said, according to Business Insider.