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Microsoft AI

In-house MAI models; separate from OpenAI.

Ticker
NASDAQ:MSFT
HQ
Redmond
Founded
Mar 2024
Web
microsoft.ai
Camps
LLM scaling

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What it does

Microsoft AI, under Mustafa Suleyman, is Microsoft's in-house model effort. After a contract change with OpenAI freed it to pursue frontier models on its own, it unveiled seven MAI models at Build 2026, including its first reasoning model.

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    Seven in-house MAI models at Build 2026; a superintelligence team separate from OpenAI.
    Sources Microsoft unveils seven homegrown AI models in new bid for 'long term self-sufficiency' GeekWire 2026-06-03

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People

Mustafa SuleymanMustafa SuleymanCEO, Microsoft AI

General sources

Microsoft unveils seven homegrown AI models in new bid for 'long term self-sufficiency' GeekWire 2026-06-03