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Microsoft’s new MAI models are the clearest signal yet that Copilot’s brain is shifting from being almost wholly powered by OpenAI to a hybrid architecture that increasingly routes routine, latency-sensitive, and cost-sensitive tasks to Microsoft’s own systems. The company announced two...

Microsoft has quietly crossed a strategic threshold: after years of relying on partner models to power Copilot and other flagship services, the company has publicly unveiled its first fully in‑house AI models — MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑Preview — and immediately begun folding them into Copilot...

Microsoft’s AI unit has quietly crossed a strategic threshold: the company is shipping its first in‑house models built specifically with everyday consumers in mind. Two new models—MAI‑Voice‑1, a high‑performance speech generator, and MAI‑1‑preview, a consumer‑focused language model—are now...

Microsoft has quietly crossed a strategic Rubicon: after years of leaning heavily on OpenAI’s frontier models to power Copilot, Bing, and other signature experiences, the company has publicly launched MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview, its first fully promoted in‑house foundation models — and...

Microsoft has quietly crossed a major strategic threshold: after years of relying on OpenAI’s frontier models to power Copilot and other signature experiences, Microsoft AI (MAI) has publicly launched the company’s first fully in-house foundation models — MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview — and...

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...

Microsoft's debut of MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview marks a strategic inflection point: the company that built a multibillion-dollar symbiosis with OpenAI is now shipping its own, first-party foundation models and high-performance speech AI, embedding them into Copilot features and beginning...

Microsoft’s AI unit has publicly launched two in‑house models — MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview — signaling a deliberate shift from purely integrating third‑party frontier models toward building product‑focused models Microsoft can own, tune, and route inside Copilot and Azure. Background...

Microsoft’s AI division publicly unveiled two fully in‑house models on August 28, 2025 — MAI‑Voice‑1, a high‑throughput speech generation system, and MAI‑1‑preview, an end‑to‑end trained text foundation model — marking a strategic pivot toward building product‑focused models that reduce...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot experiment turns text into talk — and, in early tests, it sounds more like a collaborator than a canned text‑to‑speech bot. The company has quietly introduced MAI‑Voice‑1, a high‑throughput speech generation model surfaced in a new Copilot Labs experience called Audio...

Microsoft’s quiet rollout of MAI-1-preview and MAI‑Voice‑1 marks the start of a deliberate move to build a first‑party foundation‑model pipeline — one that seeks to reduce Microsoft’s operational dependence on OpenAI while embedding tailored, high‑throughput AI directly into Copilot and Windows...

Microsoft’s AI team has quietly moved from being a heavy consumer of external foundation models to building its own — releasing two in‑house models, MAI‑Voice‑1 (a high‑speed speech generator) and MAI‑1‑preview (a consumer‑focused large language model) — and the move is as much strategic as it...

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 moved from partner-dependent experimentation to deploying its own, production‑focused models with the public debut of MAI‑Voice‑1 (a high‑throughput speech generator) and MAI‑1‑preview (an in‑house mixture‑of‑experts language model), rolling both into Copilot experiences...

Microsoft’s first homegrown models are no longer a roadmap item: MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview are live in product previews and community tests, marking a deliberate pivot from heavy dependence on external frontier providers toward an orchestration-first strategy that blends in‑house models...

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...

OpenAI’s highly anticipated corporate restructuring has been pushed off the immediate calendar as last‑ditch negotiations with Microsoft over API access, intellectual property (IP) rights and a disputed “AGI clause” remain unresolved, forcing a delay that could push the overhaul into next year...

Microsoft’s AI team has quietly shipped its first pair of fully in‑house foundation models — MAI‑Voice‑1 (a high‑throughput speech generator) and MAI‑1‑preview (a mixture‑of‑experts text model) — and begun folding them into Copilot experiences as part of a deliberate shift toward owning more of...

Microsoft’s quiet pivot from partner-dependent innovator to full-spectrum AI builder took a conspicuous turn this week with the public debut of the company’s first in‑house foundation models and voice engines under the MAI umbrella — most notably MAI‑1‑preview and a highly optimized speech model...

Microsoft has quietly shipped what it describes as its first purpose-built in‑house foundation models — MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview — and begun folding them into Copilot experiences as part of a broader push to own more of the AI stack that powers Microsoft 365, Teams, and other first‑party...