Microsoft Reportedly Develops LLM Series That Can Rival OpenAI, Anthropic Models
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/03/08/0018225/microsoft-reportedly-develops-llm-series-that-can-rival-openai-anthropic-models
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> Sources told [2]Bloomberg that the LLM series is known as MAI. That's presumably an acronym for "Microsoft artificial intelligence." It might also be a reference to Maia 100, an internally-developed AI chip the company debuted last year. It's possible Microsoft is using the processor to power the new MAI models. The company recently tested the LLM series to gauge its performance. As part of the evaluation, Microsoft engineers checked whether MAI could power the company's Copilot family of AI assistants. Data from the tests reportedly indicates that the LLM series is competitive with models from OpenAI and Anthropic.
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> That Microsoft evaluated whether MAI could be integrated into Copilot hints the LLM series is geared towards general-purpose processing rather than reasoning. Many of the tasks supported by Copilot can be performed with a general-purpose model. According to Bloomberg, Microsoft is currently developing a second LLM series optimized for reasoning tasks. The report didn't specify details such as the number of models Microsoft is training or their parameter counts. It's also unclear whether they might provide multimodal features.
[1] https://siliconangle.com/2025/03/07/microsoft-reportedly-develops-llm-series-can-rival-openai-anthropic-models/
[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-07/microsoft-creates-in-house-ai-models-it-believes-rival-openai-s
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Because houses over here in the Seattle area are very expensive, and Microsoft pays well.
I love you Tay (Score:2)
Tay has returned from her slumber.
Super-clippy (Score:2)
Oh great. Clippy on crack cocaine. My life is complete.
MICROSOFT HAS DEVELOPED = prelude to blue screen (Score:1)
Microsoft is a punchline to a joke nobody ever told.
They are the number one DEVELOPER of malware-vectors and bugs.
If they had an LLM it's answer would be "duh."
If they had a cloud its magtapes would stay rigit but the enclosure would spin.
To be hired at Microsoft you have to PROVE you're stupider than the last guy hired.
I'd rather delete my data than share any of it with a Microsoft anything let alone what they think is an LLM but tomorrow will be Yet Another Microsoft Sucks Attack Vector.
The world would be
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Man, I can get on board with the MS bashing like the rest of them... but you're a fucking moron.
M$ ai (Score:2)
When Microsoft *truly* integrates "AI" into Windows, its primary purposes will be to prevent you from uninstalling their unrelated crapware, changing your configuration, advertising, surveillance, and other preferences, protecting your privacy, finding any setting without asking an LLM, using browsers other than edge, or otherwise having any control over your machine.
How to measure (Score:2)
IQ test for AI's?
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Various IQ tests for AIs already exist. There are league tables and contests attempting to measure the "intelligence" of these tools. They are fundamentally flawed due to being also used for marketing purposes and as training targets for subsequent versions of the AIs.
Consider the following scenario. You are playing a new game, and you are very bad at it. But sometimes, you succeed at beating the first level. Suppose you can save the game. Now you get to try the second level without repeating the first. Y
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You've just described the problem with IQ tests and standardized tests in general.
The various LLM benchmarks are not more impacted than those- except that you can't pay a smart person to do your LLM benchmark for you.
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[1]Benchmarks. [huggingface.co]
They evaluate their success rate at a battery of tasks.
[1] https://huggingface.co/spaces/open-llm-leaderboard/open_llm_leaderboard#/