{"id":138541,"date":"2025-09-12T20:41:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T20:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/138541\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T20:41:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T20:41:15","slug":"microsoft-is-making-significant-investments-in-training-its-own-ai-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/138541\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u00a0is making \u2018significant investments\u2019 in training its own AI models"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Microsoft AI launched its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/767809\/microsoft-in-house-ai-models-launch-openai\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first in-house models<\/a> last month, adding to the already complicated relationship with its OpenAI partner. Now, Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says the company is making \u201csignificant investments\u201d in the compute capacity required to Microsoft\u2019s own future frontier models.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cWe should have the capacity to build world class frontier models in house of all sizes, but we should be very pragmatic and use other models where we need to,\u201d said Suleyman during Microsoft\u2019s employee-only town hall on Thursday. \u201cWe\u2019re also going to be making significant investments in our own cluster, so today MAI-1-preview was only trained on 15,000 H100s, a tiny cluster in the grand scheme of things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Suleyman hinted that Microsoft has ambitions to train models that are comparable to Meta, Google, and xAI\u2019s efforts on clusters that are \u201csix to ten times larger in size\u201d than what Microsoft used for its MAI-1-preview. \u201cMuch more to do, but it\u2019s good to take the first steps,\u201d said Suleyman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said at the same town hall that he\u2019s \u201clooking forward to us building model capability, so that we can build model-forward products.\u201d Nadella also made it clear that Microsoft will \u201cdefinitely support multiple models\u201d in its products, and highlighted GitHub Copilot as \u201cthe best example\u201d of that strategy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Microsoft is reportedly planning to use Anthropic\u2019s AI models for some features in Microsoft 365 soon. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/articles\/microsoft-buy-ai-anthropic-shift-openai?rc=r6gev9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Information<\/a> reports that the Microsoft 365 Copilot will be \u201cpartly powered by Anthropic models,\u201d after Microsoft found that some of these models outperformed OpenAI in Excel and PowerPoint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft AI launched its first in-house models last month, adding to the already complicated relationship with its OpenAI&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,2577,8207,1996,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-138541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-microsoft","14":"tag-report","15":"tag-tech","16":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}