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Microsoft is prepared to tackle Google and OpenAI with its new AI mannequin
Microsoft is coaching a brand new, inhouse AI language mannequin giant sufficient to compete with these from Alphabet’s Google and OpenAI, the Information reported on Monday.
(Reuters) -Microsoft is coaching a brand new, in-home AI language mannequin giant sufficient to compete with these from Alphabet’s Google and OpenAI, the Information reported on Monday.
The new mannequin, internally referred to as MAI-1, is being overseen by just lately employed Mustafa Suleyman, the Google DeepMind co-founder and former CEO of AI startup Inflection, the report mentioned, citing two Microsoft workers with data of the trouble.
The actual objective of the mannequin has not been decided but and can rely on how nicely it performs. Microsoft might preview the brand new mannequin as quickly as its Build developer convention later this month, the report mentioned.
Microsoft declined to remark when contacted by Reuters.
MAI-1 can be “far larger” than the earlier smaller, open supply fashions Microsoft had beforehand educated which suggests it is going to be costlier, in accordance to the report.
Microsoft final month launched a smaller synthetic intelligence mannequin referred to as Phi-3-mini because it appears to entice a wider shopper base with price-efficient choices.
The firm has invested billions of {dollars} in OpenAI and deployed the ChatGPT maker’s know-how throughout its suite of productiveness software program, permitting it to take an early lead within the generative AI race.
Microsoft has been setting apart giant cluster of servers outfitted with Nvidia’s graphic processing items together with giant quantities of knowledge to enhance the mannequin, in accordance to the report.
MAI-1 can have roughly 500 billion parameters, the report mentioned, whereas OpenAI’s GPT-4 is reported to have one trillion parameters and Phi-3 mini measures 3.8 billion parameters.
Microsoft tapped Suleyman in March as the pinnacle of its newly created shopper AI unit and employed a number of workers of Inflection.
The new mannequin is just not carried over from Inflection, though it could construct on coaching knowledge from the startup, the report added.
(This story has not been edited by News18 employees and is printed from a syndicated information company feed – Reuters)
