Microsoft AI unveils first in-house models to challenge OpenAI, Google and other tech giants

Microsoft’s AI division has unveiled its first two homegrown artificial intelligence (AI) models: MAI-Voice-1 AI and MAI-1-preview. The company has been developing its own foundational AI technology, moving beyond its reliance on external partners like OpenAI.

What Microsoft’s MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview AI models do

According to the company, the new MAI-Voice-1 is a speech model capable of generating a minute of audio in under a second using just one GPU. Microsoft is already leveraging this model to power several of its features, including Copilot Daily, which has an AI host narrate top news stories, and for generating podcast-style discussions to help explain various topics.“Voice is the interface of the future for AI companions and MAI-Voice-1 delivers high-fidelity, expressive audio across both single and multi-speaker scenarios,” Microsoft said.In addition, Microsoft introduced MAI-1-preview, which was trained on 15,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs. The company describes this model as a “glimpse of future offerings inside Copilot,” designed for users who need an AI capable of following instructions and providing helpful responses to everyday queries. Microsoft plans to roll out MAI-1-preview for specific text use cases within the Copilot AI assistant, which currently relies on OpenAI’s large language models. The company has also begun publicly testing the model on the AI benchmarking platform LMArena.“We have big ambitions for where we go next. Not only will we pursue further advances here, but we believe that orchestrating a range of specialized models serving different user intents and use cases will unlock immense value,” the company said.Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman previously indicated the company’s focus would be on consumer-facing applications, not enterprise. “My logic is that we have to create something that works extremely well for the consumer and really optimise for our use case… My focus is on building models that really work for the consumer companion,” he said in a past interview.

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