Microsoft’s AI division introduced its first homegrown AI fashions on Thursday: MAI-Voice-1 AI and MAI-1-preview. The corporate says its new MAI-Voice-1 speech mannequin can generate a minute’s value of audio in beneath one second on only one GPU, whereas MAI-1-preview “presents a glimpse of future choices inside Copilot.”
You may strive MA1-Voice-1 out for your self on Copilot Labs, the place you possibly can enter what you need the AI mannequin to say, in addition to change its voice and elegance of talking. Along with this mannequin, Microsoft launched MAI-1-preview, which it says it educated on round 15,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs. It’s constructed for customers in want of an AI mannequin able to following directions and “offering useful responses to on a regular basis queries.”
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman stated throughout an episode of Decoder final yr that the corporate’s inside AI fashions aren’t centered on enterprise use circumstances. “My logic is that we’ve got to create one thing that works extraordinarily effectively for the patron and actually optimize for our use case,” Suleyman stated. “So, we’ve got huge quantities of very predictive and really helpful knowledge on the advert aspect, on client telemetry, and so forth. My focus is on constructing fashions that basically work for the patron companion.”
Microsoft AI plans on rolling out MAI-1-preview for sure textual content use circumstances in its Copilot AI assistant, which presently depends on OpenAI’s giant language fashions. It has additionally began publicly testing its MAI-1-preview mannequin on the AI benchmarking platform LMArena.
“We’ve got large ambitions for the place we go subsequent,” Microsoft AI writes within the weblog publish. “Not solely will we pursue additional advances right here, however we imagine that orchestrating a spread of specialised fashions serving completely different person intents and use circumstances will unlock immense worth.”
