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’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...
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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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Microsoft’s new VibeVoice marks a striking shift in what open-source text-to-speech can do: from short, single-voice clips to hour‑scale, multi‑speaker spoken audio that resembles a produced podcast — and it’s available now for researchers and tinkerers to try. The framework packages a compact...
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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 top AI executive has issued a stark, unusual warning: the near‑term danger from advanced generative systems may not be that machines become conscious, but that humans will believe they are — and that belief could reshape law, ethics, mental health and everyday product design faster...
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Microsoft has begun rolling out a staged update that brings semantic file search and a redesigned Copilot home to the Copilot on Windows app for Windows Insiders, with the semantics-driven search initially available only on certified Copilot+ PCs and the new homepage surfacing recent apps...
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Microsoft's File Explorer is getting a practical, productivity-focused facelift that pushes more commands and AI into the surface users already interact with — hover-activated quick-action buttons for Home items, an experimental AI Actions menu and deeper Copilot integration — even as the app...
Intel and Microsoft’s move to fold a dedicated Vision Processing Unit into Windows’ on-device ML story is not a product tweak — it is an architectural shift that changes where and how many Windows AI experiences will run, who will pay the power bill, and how developers will ship intelligent apps...
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT‑5 has arrived as a clear pivot from incremental “smarter chat” upgrades toward models built to reason—and the shift is already reshaping how Microsoft, developers, and everyday Windows users experience AI assistants on the desktop and in the cloud.
Background: what landed and...
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Microsoft’s newest messaging about the future of Windows makes a simple, startling claim: the next generation of the OS will be multimodal and agentic—able to see, hear, and act on users’ behalf—and that voice and vision will become first-class inputs alongside (and sometimes ahead of) the mouse...
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Microsoft's Windows lead has just sketched the next major evolution of the platform: an ambient, multi‑modal, agentic operating system that sees and hears what you do and partners with you through natural language. In a recent interview, Pavan Davuluri — Microsoft’s head of Windows — described a...
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Across two years of reporting for the Windows Intelligence column I followed a single, sometimes messy, but always consequential story: Windows ceases to be just an operating system and becomes an AI‑first platform—and that shift matters for every user, buyer, and IT pro who touches a PC...
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Microsoft’s long-anticipated rollout of OpenAI’s GPT-5 has arrived inside the Microsoft ecosystem, and it’s bigger than a point upgrade: Copilot gains a new smart mode that dynamically switches models, Microsoft 365 Copilot gets deeper reasoning for complex work, GitHub Copilot levels up coding...
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For months, speculation swirled about the integration of OpenAI's next-generation GPT model into Microsoft’s flagship AI assistant. Now, it’s official: GPT-5 is available for free within Microsoft Copilot, marking a watershed moment not only for Windows enthusiasts, but also for productivity...
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A bold new era dawns for Windows users as Microsoft unveils its ambitious "Windows 2030 Vision," promising a radical transformation powered by artificial intelligence and multimodal interactions. At the heart of this overhaul is a fusion of voice control, natural language understanding, and...
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In a rare and candid glimpse into its long-term ambitions, Microsoft has begun to lift the curtain on what Windows could look like as we approach 2030—and the changes being considered are nothing short of radical. In a recently surfaced video, David Weston, Corporate Vice President for OS...
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A transformative moment for AI on Windows arrived today with the debut of the GPU-accelerated gpt-oss-20B model, empowering developers and enthusiasts alike to harness the power of advanced, open-source reasoning directly on their own machines. Bringing leading-edge large language model...
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Here are the key points from the Daily Jang article on Microsoft rolling out the gpt-oss-20b model to Windows users:
Model Details: Microsoft has made OpenAI’s new free and open GPT model, called gpt-oss-20b, accessible to Windows 11 users via the Windows AI Foundry platform.
Platform: Windows...
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The artificial intelligence community witnessed a significant turning point as OpenAI, in close partnership with Microsoft, officially released the GPT-OSS family of open-weight language models—gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b—integrated directly into Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry and Windows AI...
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