… I’m told Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman will unveil a new MAI-Thinking-1 model at Build, the company’s first reasoning model. Microsoft hasn’t used distillation to create its reasoning model, meaning it wasn’t trained by learning from another AI model’s outputs. …
… MAI-Thinking-1, Microsoft’s first reasoning model, was the main addition, along with six other new models focused on image, voice, transcription, and coding. Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman told me these models are part of a bigger effort to prove that Microsoft can become a top AI model creator. …
… Microsoft launched its Maia 200 chip earlier this year, a successor to its first in-house AI chip. The Maia 200 is designed to handle large-scale AI workloads like Claude. …
… Having an AI software stack means being able to deploy AI agents into that data to better organize it — with fewer concerns about leakage than there would be with general-purpose third-party LLMs. “Training AI models on public data is the largest, fastest-growing business in history,” Ellison said … …
… A designer could use Adobe to automatically turn a sketch into a full image, render a 3D model of it, then create a AI video just by asking. …