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Microsoft’s AI team has shipped two first‑party foundation models — MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview — a move that signals a deliberate strategic pivot from being primarily a host and integrator of external models toward building proprietary AI infrastructure optimized for Microsoft’s product...

Microsoft’s move to ship MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview marks a clear strategic inflection: the company is no longer only a buyer and integrator of frontier models but a serious producer of first‑party models engineered to run inside Copilot and across Microsoft’s consumer surfaces. Microsoft...

Microsoft has begun public testing of MAI-1-preview — a homegrown large language model that Microsoft says was trained on roughly 15,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs and that will begin powering select Copilot text experiences as part of a phased rollout, marking a clear strategic shift toward reducing...

Microsoft has quietly shipped its first fully in‑house AI models — MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview — marking a deliberate shift in strategy that reduces dependence on OpenAI’s stack and accelerates Microsoft’s plan to own more of the compute, models, and product surface area that power Copilot...

Microsoft has begun public testing of MAI‑1‑preview, a new in‑house large language model from Microsoft AI (MAI) that the company says will be trialed inside Copilot and evaluated publicly on LMArena — a move that signals an accelerated push to reduce reliance on OpenAI while building...

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...