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Microsoft MSFT.O is training a new internal AI language model big enough to compete with those of Alphabet’s Google GOOGL.O and OpenAI, The Information reported Monday.
The new model, called MAI-1 internally, is overseen by Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of Google DeepMind and former chief executive of startup Inflection, who was recently hired, the report said, citing two Microsoft employees with knowledge of the ‘effort.
Microsoft did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
According to the report, Microsoft has set aside large clusters of servers equipped with Nvidia graphics processing units
NVDA.O as well as large amounts of data in order to improve the model.
MAI-1 will be “much larger” than the smaller open Source models Microsoft previously trained, meaning it will be more expensive, the report adds.
