Microsoft’s Multi‑Agent AI Gambit: How MAI Stacks Up vs OpenAI and DeepMind
Microsoft has launched its own AI models under the MAI (Multi-Agent Intelligence) initiative, including MAI-Voice-1, a fast speech generation model, and MAI-1-preview, a large language model trained on 15,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs. The company is shifting from relying on OpenAI to building in-house models and is focusing on orchestrating multiple specialized AI agents for complex workflows.