(Reuters) -Microsoft is coaching a brand new, in-house AI language mannequin giant sufficient to compete with these from Alphabet’s Google and OpenAI, the Info reported on Monday.
The brand new mannequin, internally known as MAI-1, is being overseen by not too long ago employed Mustafa Suleyman, the Google DeepMind co-founder and former CEO of AI startup Inflection, the report mentioned, citing two Microsoft staff with information of the trouble.
The precise objective of the mannequin has not been decided but and can rely on how effectively it performs. Microsoft might preview the brand new mannequin as quickly as its Construct developer convention later this month, the report mentioned.
Microsoft declined to remark when contacted by Reuters.
MAI-1 might be “far bigger” than the earlier smaller, open supply fashions Microsoft had beforehand skilled which implies will probably be costlier, based on the report.
Microsoft final month launched a smaller synthetic intelligence mannequin referred to as Phi-3-mini because it seems to draw a wider consumer base with cost-effective choices.
The corporate has invested billions of {dollars} in OpenAI and deployed the ChatGPT maker’s expertise 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 geared up with Nvidia’s graphic processing items together with giant quantities of knowledge to enhance the mannequin, based on 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 staff of Inflection.
The brand new mannequin will not be carried over from Inflection, though it could construct on coaching knowledge from the startup, the report added.
(Reporting by Zaheer Kachwala in Bengaluru; Enhancing by Shilpi Majumdar and Sriraj Kalluvila)
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