Microsoft acquired most of Inflection AI’s staff and paid $650 million for rights to its intellectual property in March. The tech giant may reveal a preview of MAI-1 at its May 21-23 Microsoft Build developer conference. This move marks the first time all of Microsoft’s consumer AI business was under a single leader, with Suleyman heading the company’s consumer AI unit.
Key takeaways:
- Microsoft is developing a new artificial intelligence model, MAI-1, which is expected to have about 500 billion parameters, making it larger than any other open source models it has trained.
- The team working on MAI-1 is led by Mustafa Suleyman, who joined Microsoft in March after founding DeepMind and serving as CEO of Inflection AI.
- Microsoft acquired most of Inflection AI’s staff and paid $650 million for rights to its intellectual property in March.
- Microsoft may reveal a preview of MAI-1 at its May 21-23 Microsoft Build developer conference.