What’s cooking at Microsoft AI? A great, big, powerful language model, MAI-1. From Ars Technica:

Microsoft is working on a new large-scale AI language model called MAI-1, which could potentially rival state-of-the-art models from Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI, according to a report by The Information. This marks the first time Microsoft has developed an in-house AI model of this magnitude since investing over $10 billion in OpenAI for the rights to reuse the startup’s AI models. OpenAI’s GPT-4 powers not only ChatGPT but also Microsoft Copilot.

Does this mean Microsoft will ditch OpenAI? With their serious investment in the firm, that seems unlikely.

Read the report here.