Microsoft is Making 'Significant Investments' in Training Its Own AI Models

A anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft AI launched its first in-house models last month, adding to the already complicated relationship with its OpenAI partner. Now, Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says the company is making 'significant investments' in the compute capacity required to Microsoft's own future frontier models.

'We should have the capacity to build world class frontier models in house of all sizes, but we should be very pragmatic and use other models where we need to,' said Suleyman during Microsoft's employee-only town hall on Thursday. 'We're also going to be making significant investments in our own cluster, so today MAI-1-preview was only trained on 15,000 H100s, a tiny cluster in the grand scheme of things.'

Suleyman hinted that Microsoft has ambitions to train models that are comparable to Meta, Google, and xAI's efforts on clusters that are 'six to ten times larger in size' than what Microsoft used for its MAI-1-preview. 'Much more to do, but it's good to take the first steps,' said Suleyman.

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