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

Link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/12/1713227/m...

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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