Microsoft is gearing up to introduce a new artificial intelligence model, which is large enough to compete with the advanced models of Google, Anthropic, and even OpenAI itself.
According to reports, this new model is internally code-named “MAI-1” and is led by former Google AI leader Mustafa Suleyman. Before Mustafa joined Microsoft, he served as the CEO of the start-up company Inflection. Until March this year, Microsoft paid $650 million.
Microsoft’s “MAI-1” may be based on Inflection’s training data and other technologies. According to two Microsoft employees familiar with the matter, Microsoft’s new model and Inflection’s original model Pi are two different projects.
MAI-1 will have approximately 500 billion parameters, or settings, that users can adjust to determine what the model learns during training. For comparison, GPT-4 has more than 1 trillion parameters, and small open source models released by companies such as Meta and Mistral have 70 billion parameters.
