The Information reports that Microsoft’s consumer AI group has started training a new large language model codenamed MAI-1. It will have “roughly 500 billion parameters,” according to the report, which frames it as a model that could compete with Google, Anthropic, and Microsoft’s marquee investment, OpenAI.
In response, Microsoft’s head of communications Frank Shaw posted that “sometimes news is just a blinding flash of the obvious” and linked to a longer statement on LinkedIn by CTO Kevin Scott. There, Scott says that Microsoft plans to keep working closely with OpenAI “well into the future” while continuing to train and release its own models.
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