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Microsoft Working on 'Far Larger' In-House AI Model


Microsoft is reportedly working on a new, in-house AI model that is “far larger” than the other open source models it has trained.

The new model, MAI-1, is expected to have about 500 billion parameters, Seeking Alpha reported Monday (May 6), citing a paywalled article by The Information. The team working on MAI-1 is led by Mustafa Suleyman, who joined Microsoft in March after founding DeepMind — which was acquired by Google — and serving as CEO of Inflection AI, the Seeking Alpha report said. Microsoft hired most of Inflection AI’s staff and paid $650 million for rights to its intellectual property in March, per the report.

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