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192 Meet MAI-1: Microsoft Readies New AI Model to Compete With Google, OpenAI

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Aaron Holmes @ The Information 1 place · 05/06/2024 10:20 EDT

For the first time since it invested more than $10 billion into OpenAI in exchange for the rights to reuse the startup’s AI models, Microsoft is training a new, in-house AI model large enough to compete with state-of-the-art models from Google, Anthropic and OpenAI itself.The new model, internally referred to as MAI-1, is being overseen by Mustafa Suleyman, the ex-Google AI leader who most recently served as CEO of the AI startup Inflection before Microsoft hired the majority of the startup’s staff and paid

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