Microsoft AI launches its first in-house models

Microsoft’s AI part announced its archetypal homegrown AI models connected Thursday: MAI-Voice-1 AI and MAI-1-preview. The institution says its caller MAI-Voice-1 code exemplary tin make a minute’s worthy of audio successful nether 1 2nd connected conscionable 1 GPU, portion MAI-1-preview “offers a glimpse of aboriginal offerings wrong Copilot.”

Microsoft already uses MA1-Voice-1 to powerfulness a mates of its features, including Copilot Daily, which has an AI big recite the day’s apical quality stories, and to generate podcast-style discussions to assistance explicate topics. 

You tin effort MA1-Voice-1 retired for yourself on Copilot Labs, wherever you tin participate what you privation the AI exemplary to say, arsenic good arsenic alteration its dependable and benignant of speaking. In summation to this model, Microsoft introduced MAI-1-preview, which it says it trained connected astir 15,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs. It’s built for users successful request of an AI exemplary susceptible of pursuing instructions and “providing adjuvant responses to mundane queries.” 

Microsoft AI main Mustafa Suleyman said during an occurrence of Decoder past twelvemonth that the company’s interior AI models aren’t focused connected endeavor usage cases. “My logic is that we person to make thing that works highly good for the user and truly optimize for our usage case,” Suleyman said. “So, we person immense amounts of precise predictive and precise utile information connected the advertisement side, connected user telemetry, and truthful on. My absorption is connected gathering models that truly enactment for the user companion.”

The institution plans connected rolling retired MAI-1-preview for definite substance usage cases successful its Copilot AI assistant, which presently relies connected OpenAI’s ample connection models. It has besides started publically investigating its MAI-1-preview exemplary connected the AI benchmarking level LMArena.

“We person large ambitions for wherever we spell next,” Microsoft writes successful the blog post. “Not lone volition we prosecute further advances here, but we judge that orchestrating a scope of specialized models serving antithetic idiosyncratic intents and usage cases volition unlock immense value.”