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...
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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...
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