{"id":184165,"date":"2025-08-29T08:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T08:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/184165\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T08:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T08:24:10","slug":"microsoft-launches-public-testing-of-first-in-house-ai-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/184165\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Launches Public Testing of First In-House AI Model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/microsoft.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft AI<\/a> (MAI) has begun public testing of the first foundation model it trained in-house.<\/p>\n<p>The model, dubbed MAI-1-preview, is being tested on LMArena, a platform for community model evaluation, the company said in a Thursday (Aug. 28)\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/microsoft.ai\/news\/two-new-in-house-models\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis represents MAI\u2019s first foundation model trained end-to-end and offers a glimpse of future offerings inside Copilot,\u201d the company said in the post. \u201cWe are actively spinning the flywheel to deliver improved models.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MAI-1-preview is designed for use by consumers and specializes in following instructions and answering everyday questions, according to the post.<\/p>\n<p>It will be rolled out for some text use cases in Copilot in the coming weeks, per the post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will continue to use the very best models from our team, our partners and the latest innovations from the open-source community to power our products,\u201d MAI said in the post. \u201cThis approach gives us the flexibility to deliver the best outcomes across millions of unique interactions every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CNBC\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/08\/28\/microsoft-tests-mai-1-preview-ai-model-boost-to-copilot-rival-openai.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>\u00a0Thursday that Microsoft powers the artificial intelligence features of its Bing search engine, its Windows 11 operating system and other products primarily with AI models from\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OpenAI<\/a>\u2014a company in which Microsoft has invested over $13 billion\u2014and that the development of an in-house model could signal that it\u2019s working to reduce that dependence.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft added OpenAI to a list of competitors in its annual report last year, while OpenAI has added cloud providers beyond Microsoft, including CoreWeave, Google and Oracle, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>MAI also announced in its Thursday blog post that it is releasing a natural speech generation model called MAI-Voice-1, making it available in Copilot Daily and Podcasts and as a Copilot Labs experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVoice is the interface of the future for AI companions and MAI-Voice-1 delivers high-fidelity, expressive audio across both single and multi-speaker scenarios,\u201d MAI said in the post.<\/p>\n<p>This announcement came on the same day that OpenAI released what it calls its \u201cmost advanced\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/artificial-intelligence-2\/2025\/openai-says-new-speech-to-speech-model-designed-for-customer-support\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">speech-to-speech<\/a> model yet.\u201d The company also made its application programming interface Realtime API generally available, saying the application programming interface now has features that help developers build voice agents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft AI (MAI) has begun public testing of the first foundation model it trained in-house. 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