Microsoft Corporation is working on in-house artificial intelligence (AI) reasoning models that might be able to directly rival those of OpenAI, The Information reported on Friday, citing sources.
Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft's in-house AI unit, took the role up in March 2024 and has since been working on not only keeping the OpenAI partnership going but also on pushing Microsoft down a self-sufficient AI path. Sources revealed that apart from the reasoning models, the tech giant's AI unit also concluded the training of a family of Microsoft models called MAI, which performed "nearly as well as leading models from OpenAI and Anthropic on commonly accepted benchmarks."
The sources further added that these MAI models will likely be sold to developers. With this, Microsoft would become a direct competitor to OpenAI. It was also revealed that the business was testing models from xAI, DeepSeek, and Meta that could potentially replace OpenAI in Copilot.
