Microsoft is accelerating its push to compete with OpenAI, its longtime collaborator, by growing its personal highly effective AI fashions and exploring alternate options to energy merchandise like Microsoft’s Copilot bot.
Microsoft has developed its personal AI “reasoning” fashions akin to fashions like OpenAI’s o1 and o3-mini, the The Data experiences. OpenAI is alleged to have refused Microsoft’s requests for technical particulars about how o1 works — stoking tensions between the corporations.
Microsoft has additionally developed a household of fashions referred to as MAI which are aggressive with OpenAI’s personal, Bloomberg experiences, and is reportedly contemplating providing them via an API later this 12 months. Parallel to these efforts, Microsoft is alleged to be testing various AI fashions from xAI, Meta, Anthropic, and DeepSeek as doable replacements for OpenAI know-how in Copilot.
Microsoft, which has invested round $14 billion in OpenAI to this point, has regarded to hedge its bets in a lot of methods, together with hiring DeepMind and Inflection co-founder Mustafa Suleyman to guide the tech big’s AI efforts.
