The success of Microsoft's artificial intelligence chatbot Copilot is due to OpenAI. Microsoft is a big investor and ChatGPT and DALL.E technologies are used in Copilot. Microsoft also developed a supercomputer for OpenAI to train their speech models. Recently, The Information reported that Microsoft is developing a language model that will compete with ChatGPT.
This model is named as MAI-1 operated by Mustafa Suleyman who is a former Google AI employee who now works at Inflection. Microsoft has also hired many Inflection employees to develop their AI models and also paid as much as $650 million to get their technology. Speculation that is spreading on the Internet right now is that Microsoft wants to replace the GPT language model to MAI-1.
However, Frank Shaw, Microsoft's head of communications, explained that this news is misleading. This is because according to Kevin Scott as Microsoft's chief technology officer, Microsoft will continue to work with OpenAI for many years to come. They have been working together for five years and although MAI-1 is still being trained and developed, it is a technology that will benefit people and it is not wrong for them to succeed in both different speech models.