Microsoft is developing its own AI models for Copilot applications to reduce dependence on OpenAI and create its own AI stack.
Microsoft's AI unit has concluded the training of a new family of AI models under the codename 'MAI', hoping to perform nearly as well as top AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic.
Microsoft has introduced new small language models, Phi-4-multimodal and Phi-4-mini, which are already ahead of Google's Gemini 2.0 series models on multiple test parameters.
In addition to developing its own AI models, Microsoft is working on reasoning AI models to compete with OpenAI products and Chinese upstarts like DeepSeek.