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 price of audio in beneath one second on only one GPU, whereas MAI-1-preview “affords a glimpse of future choices inside Copilot.”
You possibly can strive MA1-Voice-1 out for your self on Copilot Labs, the place you may 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 skilled 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 12 months that the corporate’s inside AI fashions aren’t targeted on enterprise use instances. “My logic is that we now have to create one thing that works extraordinarily effectively for the buyer and actually optimize for our use case,” Suleyman stated. “So, we now have huge quantities of very predictive and really helpful information on the advert aspect, on client telemetry, and so forth. My focus is on constructing fashions that basically work for the buyer companion.”
The corporate plans on rolling out MAI-1-preview for sure textual content use instances in its Copilot AI assistant, which at present 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 now have large ambitions for the place we go subsequent,” Microsoft writes within the weblog put up. “Not solely will we pursue additional advances right here, however we imagine that orchestrating a variety of specialised fashions serving totally different consumer intents and use instances will unlock immense worth.”
