Microsoft has quietly crossed a strategic Rubicon: after years of tight integration with OpenAI, the company has begun shipping its own first-party foundation models — notably MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview — and is positioning them inside Copilot and Azure as the start of a long-term bid to...
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Microsoft’s Windows lead has just sketched a future in which the operating system becomes ambient, multimodal and agentic — able to listen, see, and act — a shift powered by a new class of on‑device AI and tight hardware integration that will reshape how organisations manage and secure Windows...
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Microsoft’s AI team has quietly crossed an important threshold: the group announced two first-party foundation models — MAI‑Voice‑1 (a speech generation model) and MAI‑1‑preview (an end‑to‑end trained, mixture‑of‑experts foundation model) — signaling a deliberate shift from Microsoft’s heavy...
