Microsoft introduces a pair of in-house AI fashions

Microsoft is increasing its AI footprint with the of two new fashions that its groups skilled fully in-house. MAI-Voice-1 is the tech main’s first pure speech technology mannequin, whereas MAI-1-preview is text-based and is the corporate’s first basis mannequin skilled end-to-end. MAI-Voice-1 is at present getting used within the Copilot Each day and Podcast options. Microsoft has made MAI-1-preview obtainable for public checks on LMArena, and can start previewing it in choose Copilot conditions within the coming weeks.

In an interview with , Microsoft AI division chief Mustafa Suleyman mentioned the pair of fashions was developed with a give attention to effectivity and cost-effectiveness. MAI-Voice-1 runs on a single GPU and MAI-1-preview was skilled on about 15,000 Nvidia H-100 GPUs. For context, different fashions, corresponding to xAI’s Grok, took greater than 100,000 of these chips for coaching. “More and more, the artwork and craft of coaching fashions is choosing the right knowledge and never losing any of your flops on pointless tokens that didn’t truly train your mannequin very a lot,” Suleyman mentioned.

Though it’s getting used to check the in-house fashions, Microsoft Copilot is primarily constructed on OpenAI’s GPT tech. The choice to construct its personal fashions, regardless of having sunk within the newer AI firm, signifies that Microsoft desires to be an unbiased competitor on this area. Whereas that might take time to succeed in parity with the businesses which have emerged as forerunners in AI growth, Suleyman instructed Semafor that Microsoft has “an infinite five-year roadmap that we’re investing in quarter after quarter.” With some considerations arising that AI could possibly be going through a bubble-pop, Microsoft’s timeline will have to be aggressive to make sure taking the unbiased path is worth it.