Microsoft unveils two new AI models, signalling direct competition with OpenAI

Microsoft on Thursday announced its first in-house AI models called MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1 Preview. Notably, Microsoft has largely relied on OpenAI’s GPT models to power the AI experience on Copilot, but as the tech giant forays into its own AI models, it increasingly stands in competition with the ChatGPT maker, along with a host of other AI companies.

What can Microsoft’s new AI models do?

MAI-Voice-1 is a natural speech generation model, which the company claims can generate a full minute of audio in under a second and using only a single GPU, which…