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Microsoft has quietly begun preparing the hardware and operational scaffolding to stop being a pure buyer of frontier AI models and instead build — and run — its own in‑house models at scale, telling employees it will invest heavily in dedicated chip clusters while keeping the OpenAI partnership...

Microsoft’s OpenAI tie-up is large and strategically important, but the argument that Microsoft has become irrecoverably dependent on OpenAI is overstated — and Google and Amazon catching up quickly enough to displace Microsoft’s AI advantage is more complicated than headlines suggest...

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 latest AI push — framed by Satya Nadella as an effort to “empower people” and spotlighted during a high-profile White House engagement on September 4, 2025 — signals a fresh phase in the company’s long-term strategy to marry cloud scale, developer tools, hardware, and public policy...

Microsoft has quietly but decisively moved from being a heavy consumer of third‑party AI models to a company shipping its own, first‑party foundation and voice models — and it has paired those models with an explicit expansion of internal, large‑scale training and inference infrastructure that...

Microsoft’s announcement that it has built and begun shipping two in‑house AI models — MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview — is a decisive shift in its AI strategy: from being primarily a buyer and integrator of frontier models to becoming an active model developer and orchestrator. The move is...

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 quietly moved from heavy reliance on partner models to shipping its own large-scale, product-ready AI building blocks with the launch of MAI‑Voice‑1 and the public preview of MAI‑1‑preview, signaling a new phase in how voice and foundation models will power Copilot, Windows...

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 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’s AI team has shipped two first-party foundation models — MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview — marking a decisive shift from a pure reliance on external providers toward building and productizing in‑house models tuned for Copilot and Azure services. eng-standing strategy combined deep...

Microsoft’s latest hiring playbook has moved from raises and restricted stock to what looks like an all-out bidding war: internal documents obtained by reporters show the company is actively targeting engineers and researchers at Meta with multimillion- and—at times—near–multibillion-dollar...

Microsoft has recently intensified its efforts to bolster its artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities by recruiting top talent from Google's DeepMind division. This strategic move, spearheaded by Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind and now head of Microsoft AI, aims to enhance Microsoft's...

In a bold move to bolster its artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, Microsoft has successfully recruited over 20 top-tier AI professionals from Google's DeepMind, signaling a significant escalation in the ongoing talent war among tech giants. This strategic maneuver underscores Microsoft's...

Microsoft has unveiled a significant expansion of its artificial intelligence ecosystem by introducing OpenAI’s open-weight language models, gpt-oss, to both Azure AI Foundry and Windows AI Foundry. This move marks a pivotal shift toward openness, flexibility, and developer empowerment...

Microsoft has recently intensified its efforts to bolster its artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities by recruiting over two dozen employees from Google's DeepMind, a move that underscores the escalating competition for top AI talent among tech giants. This strategic hiring spree is...

Microsoft has recently intensified its efforts to recruit top-tier artificial intelligence (AI) talent from Google's DeepMind, signaling a strategic push to bolster its AI capabilities. This recruitment drive is not solely focused on offering substantial financial incentives but emphasizes a...

Microsoft’s vision for Windows in 2030 is boldly reshaping the foundation of personal and enterprise computing, centering artificial intelligence as the catalyst for a seismic evolution in how users interact with their machines. In the first of a compelling new video series, leadership at...

Motorola has recently announced the integration of Microsoft's Copilot Vision into its Moto AI platform, marking a significant advancement in the realm of mobile artificial intelligence. This collaboration aims to provide users with real-time, camera-based AI interactions, enhancing the...

Microsoft’s latest AI showcase is redefining expectations for the global Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry, as leading firms demonstrate how robust AI solutions are catalyzing operational transformation, accelerating customer engagement, and reducing costs at scale. With companies like...