Microsoft is planning to make “Significant Investments” in Its Own He Chip Cluster to Become “self-saffrict in he,” Microsoft he ceo Mustafa Said During an All-EMPLOYEE Town Hall Meeting on Thursday.
Microsoft’s he strategy has so far away from the partnership with Opennai, Although the Companies have drifted apart and they’re finalization of the tense Contract renegotiations.
SULEYMAN’S COMMESS SUGGEST MICROSOFT WANTS TO FORGE Its Own Path in He, while still suppueting openai with cloud-computing services.
“It ‘Critical that a Company of Our Size, with the diversity of Businesses that we had, that we are, you know, able to be self -sufficient in he, if we choose,” Suleyman Said.
Instead of relaxing solely on Openai, Microsoft is USING Open-Source Models, Partnership with Other He Developers, and Building Its Own Models, Suleyman Said.
The Software Giant Unveiled Mai-1-Preview in Late August. This is Microsoft he’s first foundation model trained end-to-end by the company, and offers a glympse of Future offers insides its Copilot Service. This model ranks 24th Among Text Models on LMARENA, A WIDELY FOLLOWED Leaderboard, so Microsoft has a lot of work to do Still.
“We have been should have the Capacity to Build World Class Frontier in-House of All Sizes, but we should be very pragmatic and users models where we Need to,” Suleyman Said.
Microsoft plans to make “Significant” investments in its Own he chip cluster to help the company builds it Own models, he added.
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He chips are Packed Close Together in Huge Clusters Becauses New Tasks Require Such Immensese, parallel processing capability that single chips can’t would the job.
SULEYMAN NOTED THAT MAI-1 -PRAVIEW WAS ONLY TRAINED ON 15,000 NVIDIA H100S, WHICH SAID WAS A “TINY CLUSTER” IN THE GRAND SCHEME OF THINGS. Competing Models from Google, Meta, and Xai Were All Trained on Clusters that were Six to 10 Times Large in Size, Suleyman Said.
Microsoft Has Significantly Benefirated From Its Arrangement to Access Openai’s Intellectual Property, Both by Seling It to Customers Through the azure openai service and Creating Its Own Products USING OpenAi’s Technology, Like its he assistant Copilot. Those the terms are being renegotiated and finalized now, Helping openai get Microsoft’s Blessing for a corplate restructuring.
Microsoft Ceo Satya Nadella During The Town Hall Reassured Employees that the Company Still Benefits from the Partnership.
“We have a very good partnership with openai. We’re Very excited to work with say, Support, Remember, Openai supplies to us. We supply to say. SOY’RE EACH OTHER’S CUSTOMERS. WE HAVE A Commercial Partnership. We are investors,” Nadella Said. “And at the Same Time, we were Very Clear that we are also want to budild Our capabilities.”
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