According to The Information report, Microsoft’s AI division, led by Mustafa Suleyman, has completed the training of a family of models, internally referred to as MAI, which perform nearly as well as the leading models from OpenAI and Anthropic on commonly accepted benchmarks.

Microsoft Microsoft is accelerating its push to compete with OpenAI, its longtime collaborator, according to a report.

Microsoft Corp. has created in-house artificial intelligence models it believes can go toe-to-toe with industry leaders including partner OpenAI, according to a person familiar with the situation.

Microsoft is developing its own AI reasoning models to compete with OpenAI.There is also a speculation that they might sell them to developers. As per Reuters, despite being a key supporter of OpenAI,

The major investor in OpenAI has been looking to cut ties as the two companies start looking more like competitors.

Microsoft Corp. has developed a series of large language models that can rival algorithms from OpenAI and Anthropic PBC, multiple publications reported today. Sources told Bloomberg that the LLM series is known as MAI.

Self-sufficiency in AI has become a top priority for the company, but homegrown models rumored for release last year are still in testing.