At this year's Build developer conference, a major expansion of an in-house model portfolio was just unveiled, marking a bold new direction for Microsoft.
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Microsoft finally caught up with the top leaders in the highly competitive AI image generation space with its new MAI-Image-2.5 model.
A memo obtained by CNBC shows that Microsoft is planning to offer voluntary buyouts to its eligible U.S. employees.
Microsoft's MAI-Transcribe-1 model currently leads the FLEURS benchmark in 11 core languages and outperforms competitors like OpenAI's Whisper-large-v3 and Google's Gemini 3.1 Flash.
Following the modest debut of MAI-Image-1 in late 2025, Microsoft has now unveiled MAI-Image-2, the second generation of its in-house AI image model with significant improvements.
Despite investing billions in OpenAI and owning a 27% stake, Microsoft no longer wants to depend solely on it for its AI future.
Microsoft continues to develop its own in-house AI models, announcing the general availability of its new image generator, MAI-Image-1.
Microsoft has unveiled its first major in-house AI models, MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview, signaling a strategic move to reduce its dependence on OpenAI.
A study by researchers from Microsoft has revealed just how bad people are at detecting images that have been created by artificial intelligence.
Microsoft has been testing a new system with language models that helps to produce amazing results related to complex healthcare diagnoses. More testing is needed before any wider rollout happens.
Microsoft has unveiled Microsoft Discovery, a new enterprise AI platform designed to accelerate research and discovery for enterprises and labs.
Microsoft has released Phi-4-reasoning and Phi-4-reasoning-plus, 14B-parameter small language models fine-tuned for complex reasoning tasks.
Microsoft is teaming up with Swiss startup inait to integrate its biologically-inspired AI model to revolutionise robotics, financial trading and more.
Microsoft has announced a new engineering organization called "CoreAI — Platforms and Tools with a former Meta executive at its helm.
Microsoft's upgrade of Bing Image Creator's to DALL-E 3 backfired spectacularly. While it promised to be faster and higher quality, the new model was met with a wave of user complaints.
The latest reports suggest that Microsoft is aiming to introduce in-house and other third-party AI models to 365 Copilot to reduce dependency on OpenAI.
Microsoft is building a new consumer health AI division, poaching top talent from Google's DeepMind to develop healthcare applications using generative AI technologies.
The latest tip suggests that Microsoft has decided that it will name the AI features on Windows 11 as "Windows Intelligence."
Be My Eyes has announced it will send video data from its services to Microsoft to help train its AI models to improve them for people who are blind or have low vision.
Microsoft has released a preview of Microsoft.Extensions.AI, a set of .NET libraries that simplify AI integration into applications.
The European Commission has declined to open an investigation into Microsoft's hiring of employees from AI startup Inflection, despite requests from member states.
TCL unveils two new Nxtpaper smartphones with enhanced AI capabilities through strategic partnership with Microsoft.
There's a reportedly leaked document that seems to indicate Microsoft's AI employees are being paid more on average compared to Azure team members.
Mustafa Suleyman, the recently named CEO of Microsoft AI, stated during the recent Aspen Ideas Festival that nearly everything on the web can be freely used by companies to train AI models.
Microsoft says it is trying to cut down on hallucinations in responses from generative AI like Copilot with an upcoming tool that's designed to both block and rewrite ungrounded info.
Back in December, Microsoft began testing AI-generated Edge Workspaces. The feature has since made it to the Stable channel and recently, the Redmond giant quietly shared details about it.
The European Union announced today that Microsoft has not sent over requested information on some of its generative AI tools, and has given the company until May 27 to do so, or risk being fined.
A new entry on the Microsoft 365 roadmap site this week shows that the Edge web browser will be adding a way to type in text prompts to create images that can be used for new browser themes.
Microsoft has plans to spend $3.3 billion to launch a new AI data center in Wisconsin, on land that was first bought by Foxconn for a failed LCD factory. President Joe Biden will help with the reveal.
Microsoft has revealed it has launched a new generative AI service specifically made for being used by US intelligence groups. This unnamed service is not connected to the internet.
Microsoft has announced a partnership with the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on its new AI Cyber Challenge. Microsoft will offer Azure AI resources for the contestants.
Microsoft made a number of security announcements today as part of the RSA Conference. They include expanding Microsoft Defender for Cloud to protect a company's AI deployments and more.
Microsoft is reportedly working on its own AI large language model called MAI-1. It is being created to rival other LLMs from Google, Anthropic, and even ChatGPT from Microsoft's partner OpenAI.
The Microsoft Start weather forecasting development team has recently created a series of new AI models that were designed to offer more accurate weather forecasts as far as 30 days in advance.
Team members at Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and other companies are anonymously reporting that they are being asked to develop AI services as fast as possible, and many are experiencing burnout.
Microsoft committed $2.2B to expand its cloud and AI operations in Malaysia over the next few years. This is the company's largest ever investment in the country with new local infrastructure.
Microsoft has just announced another partnership with an AI startup company, Sanctuary AI. The two businesses will work together to create a human-like AI model for general purpose robots.
Microsoft is trying to show it is taking the use of AI services and their effects seriously by publishing its first annual AI transparency report, with info on its own employee practices.
Internal Microsoft emails have revealed the company feared it will fall behind Google in AI development in 2019. The CTO's emails showed that he believed Microsoft was years behind Google's AI.
Several newspaper chains have sued OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming ChatGPT was trained on copyrighted articles without permission. They also say it has an 'uncanny' ability to reproduce news stories.
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