Since the fever broke out by generative AI, Microsoft has opted for OpenAi models to give life to key functions in some of its most important products. It is not strange if we remember that those of Redmond They invested more than 10,000 million dollars in the startup directed by Sam Altman. However, this alliance of convenience It has been showing fissures for months And, as time goes by, The rivalry between both parties becomes more evident.
It was Microsoft itself that, a year ago, included OpenAI in his list of competitorstogether with Amazon, Apple, Google and Meta. And it is OpenAi who, According to The Informationinsists on not wanting to share its avant -garde technology when it arrives, if it arrives, the AGI. Even if you try to make up, the link is no longer as solid as in its first days. And now there is another chapter underway.
Microsoft AI begins to show their own letters
Mustafa SuleymanCEO of Microsoft AI, who assumed the position when the association with Openai had been consolidated for years, It has just presented two internally developed models. They are advanced proposals that users can already prove and reflect the company’s ambition: “Create AI applied as a platform for products.” One is a real novelty and another we already knew. Let’s look at the details.
Mai-1-Preview. It is the great novelty. It is a Mixure-OF-Experts model, in the style of GPT-4O or GPT-5, designed to offer great capabilities in resolution of instructions and useful responses for daily consultations. According to Suleyman, it is the first model trained from beginning to end in Microsoft AI’s own laboratories.
The most striking thing is that it can already be tested. Just enter LMARENAselect Direct Chat and choose Mai-1-Preview. In the coming weeks it will also arrive in Copilot, although only “for certain cases of text use.” It is paradoxical: the text functions of the Microsoft Chatbot work thanks to OpenAi, but now it will begin to live with its own technology. Developers can also request anticipated access to API.
MAI-VOICE-1. It is a voice generation model that stands out for its expressiveness and naturalness. For some time now it promotes functions such as Copilot Daily (news summaries) and Copilot Podcasts, although only in English. It is also available in COPILOT LABSwhere you can try different voices, styles and narration tones.
One of its strengths is efficiency: it can generate a complete minute of audio in less than a second using a single GPU. With this, it is one of the fastest and most effective voice systems that exist today.
Microsoft defends that the voice will be the interface of future assistants of AI. And he wants to advance with a high fidelity solution capable of responding in different scenarios. Could I have resorted to Openai and your GPT-4o in audio version? Yes. Do you want to do it? Everything indicates not.
“Much more to come. We have great ambitions for what comes next: advances in the models, an exciting roadmap in computation capacity and the opportunity to reach billions of people through Microsoft products. We are building an AI for all,” said Suleyman in X.
It remains to see what course the relationship between Microsoft and OpenAi will take. What is clear to users is that there will be more variety and more tools to experiment.
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