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Alina Maria Stan @ The Next Web 2 place · today 15:06 EDT

Microsoft just shipped the clearest signal yet that it is building an AI empire without OpenAI

Six months after renegotiating the contract that once barred it from independently pursuing frontier AI, Microsoft has released three in-house models that directly challenge the partner it spent $13 billion cultivating. MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2 are now available in Microsoft Foundry, and they do not carry OpenAI’s name anywhere on the label. The models are […]
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