Microsoft is training a new, in-house AI language model large enough to compete with those from Alphabet’s Google and ChatGPT owner OpenAI, the Information reported Monday.
The new model, internally referred to as MAI-1, is being overseen by recently hired Mustafa Suleyman, the Google DeepMind co-founder and former CEO of AI startup Inflection, the report said, citing two Microsoft employees with knowledge of the effort.
Microsoft did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
Microsoft has been setting aside a large cluster of servers equipped with Nvidia’s graphic processing units along with large amounts of data to improve the model, according to the report.
MAI-1 will be “far larger” than the previous smaller, open source models Microsoft had previously trained which means it will be more expensive, the report added.
