Microsoft Introduces A Pair Of In-house Ai Models

Microsoft is expanding its AI footprint pinch nan release of 2 caller models that its teams trained wholly in-house. MAI-Voice-1 is nan tech major's first earthy reside procreation model, while MAI-1-preview is text-based and is nan company's first instauration exemplary trained end-to-end. MAI-Voice-1 is presently being utilized successful nan Copilot Daily and Podcast features. Microsoft has made MAI-1-preview disposable for nationalist tests connected LMArena, and will statesman previewing it successful prime Copilot situations successful nan coming weeks.

In an question and reply pinch Semafor, Microsoft AI section leader Mustafa Suleyman said nan brace of models was developed pinch a attraction connected ratio and cost-effectiveness. MAI-Voice-1 runs connected a azygous GPU and MAI-1-preview was trained connected astir 15,000 Nvidia H-100 GPUs. For context, different models, specified arsenic xAI's Grok, took much than 100,000 of those chips for training. "Increasingly, nan creation and trade of training models is selecting nan cleanable information and not wasting immoderate of your flops connected unnecessary tokens that didn’t really thatch your exemplary very much," Suleyman said.

Although it is being utilized to trial nan in-house models, Microsoft Copilot is chiefly built connected OpenAI's GPT tech. The determination to build its ain models, contempt having sunk billion-dollar investments successful nan newer AI company, indicates that Microsoft wants to beryllium an independent competitor successful this space. While that could return clip to scope parity pinch nan companies that person emerged arsenic forerunners successful AI development, Suleyman told Semafor that Microsoft has "an tremendous five-year roadmap that we're investing successful 4th aft quarter." With immoderate concerns arising that AI could beryllium facing a bubble-pop, Microsoft's timeline will request to beryllium fierce to guarantee taking nan independent way is worthwhile.