Microsoft MAI-1 AI Mannequin With 500 Billion Parameters Might Quickly Be Unveiled: Report

Microsoft is reportedly engaged on a brand new synthetic intelligence (AI) mannequin dubbed MAI-1, which may very well be its largest in-house mannequin up to now. The corporate lately created its AI division, which is now headed by Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of Google DeepMind and former CEO of Inflection AI. It’s stated that Suleyman is heading the event of the massive language mannequin and it may be unveiled quickly. Notably, Microsoft launched its open-source small language mannequin (SLM) Phi-3-mini final month as a successor to the Phi-2 mannequin.

In accordance with a report by The Data, the MAI-1 AI mannequin is in its superior phases of growth. Nonetheless, it’s stated that its goal has not been decided but, and it’ll rely on its remaining capabilities. Citing unnamed Microsoft staff acquainted with the matter, the report additionally highlighted that the undertaking is being headed by Suleyman. It’s believed that the tech large might preview the AI mannequin throughout its annual developer-focused occasion Microsoft Construct which will probably be held beginning Could 21.

The MAI-1 AI mannequin reportedly comprises 500 billion parameters, which makes it the biggest LLM created by the corporate thus far. For comparability, the Phi-3-mini mannequin contained 3.8 billion parameters, whereas GPT-4 comes with one trillion parameters. The bigger the variety of parameters, the broader the information base of an AI mannequin. It additionally helps in bettering the contextual information window of the chatbot. Since MAI-3 has not been launched, no benchmark scores can be found to evaluate its efficiency in comparison with the highest fashions.

As per the report, Microsoft didn’t carry this AI mannequin from Inflection AI and as an alternative constructed it from scratch in-house. Nonetheless, it might need been educated utilizing knowledge from the startup. It’s unclear if the MAI-1 AI mannequin may even be open-sourced like Phi-3-mini, or would require a subscription price for entry. The tech large might additionally use it for its personal AI merchandise. These particulars will possible be shared in the course of the firm’s Construct occasion later this month.

Individually, OpenAI is reportedly engaged on its ChatGPT-powered search engine and has already created a site and SSL certificates for its first-ever search product. Some rumours have prompt that the search engine may very well be launched on Could 9.