According to OpenAI, Microsoft is preparing a new AI model to rival Google. The Information

According to a Monday article in the Information, Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab is developing an AI language model internally that is big enough to take on those from Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O), opens new tab, and OpenAI.
According to the story, which cited two Microsoft workers with knowledge of the project, Mustafa Suleyman, the newly hired co-founder of Google DeepMind and former CEO of AI firm Inflection, is in charge of the new model, internally known as MAI-1.

The model’s precise function is still unknown and will be defined by how well it works. According to the source, Microsoft may unveil the new device at its Build developer conference later this month.
The paper claims that MAI-1 will cost more as it will be “far larger” than the earlier, smaller, open-source models that Microsoft had previously traine.

Microsoft introduced Phi-3-mini, a more affordable artificial intelligence model, last month in an effort to reach a larger cliente.
The business has taken an early lead in the battle for generative AI thanks to its billion-dollar investment in OpenAI and integration of ChatGPT maker’s technology throughout its portfolio of productivity applications.
According to the source, Microsoft has been allocating a sizable cluster of servers fitted with Nvidia’s (NVDA.O) graphics processing units and opening new tab graphic processing units together with enormous quantities of data in order to improve the model.

The paper said that MAI-1 will have about 500 billion parameters, compared to one trillion for OpenAI’s GPT-4 and 3.8 billion for Phi-3 mini.
In March, Microsoft appointed Suleyman to lead its recently established consumer AI division and brought on board other Inflection staff members.
The study also said that while the new model could draw from starting training data, it is not carried over from Inflection.