Microsoft has principally relied on OpenAI’s giant language fashions to energy its personal AI merchandise like Copilot. However now, the tech large’s AI division, led by Mustafa Suleyman, has introduced two new AI fashions – MAI-1-preview and MAI-Voice-1.
In a weblog put up, Microsoft stated that whereas MAI-1-preview “presents a glimpse of future choices inside Copilot”, MAI-Voice-1 can generate a 60-second-long audio clip in only one second utilizing a single GPU, making it one of the vital environment friendly speech methods out there thus far.
Speaking of MAI-Voice-1, the tech large says that the “extremely expressive and pure speech technology mannequin” is already powering sure options like Copilot Every day and Podcasts. The corporate can be planning to convey it to Copilot Labs, the place customers will have the ability to strive it out with storytelling demos.
As for MAI-1-preview, the brand new giant language mannequin is at the moment out there for testing on LMArena and was educated utilizing roughly 15,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs. Microsoft says that the AI mannequin specialises “in following directions and offering useful responses to on a regular basis queries.” Within the following weeks, the AI mannequin might be out there in sure text-based use instances. The variety of GPUs used to coach Microsoft’s latest mannequin is much lower than the likes of xAI’s Grok, which took greater than 1,00,000 of those chips only for coaching.
In an announcement to The Verge final 12 months, Microsoft’s AI division head, Mustafa Suleyman, had stated that the corporate’s in-house developed AI fashions gained’t be specializing in enterprise use instances, however as an alternative they are going to “create one thing that works extraordinarily nicely for the buyer and actually optimize for our use case.”
Microsoft could have invested billions of {dollars} in ChatGPT maker OpenAI, however in the previous few months, the connection between the 2 firms has been rocky. Earlier this 12 months, in June, OpenAI executives allegedly thought of accusing Microsoft of anticompetitive behaviour within the partnership.
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