"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," indicated Microsoft's AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman while affirming the company's stance to become self-sufficient in the generative AI landscape building its own chip cluster, seemingly emancipating itself from an over-reliance on OpenAI's tech.
More recently, the software giant unveiled MAI-Image-1, its first text-to-image generator, which it developed and designed in-house (via The Verge). The company referred to the model as “the next step on our journey.”
