Microsoft to Put More Computing Power Behind In-House AI Models

(Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp. plans to expand its physical infrastructure to train its own artificial intelligence models that it hopes will be competitive with OpenAI, Anthropic and other firms. 

The company will make “significant investments” in its own clusters of computing power to train models, consumer AI chief Mustafa Suleyman told employees during an all-hands meeting Thursday.

It’s critical for a company of Microsoft’s size to have the ability to be self-sufficient in AI if it chooses to, Suleyman told employees, according to…