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Microsoft’s new ‘superintelligence’ game plan is all about business

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Its new transcription model is a step toward those goals, says Microsoft AI’s Mustafa Suleyman. Its new transcription model is a step toward those goals, says Microsoft AI’s Mustafa Suleyman. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Mustafa Suleyman has been preparing for his new job description for a long time. Suleyman is Microsoft’s inaugural CEO of AI, but after the company underwent a large-scale restructuring in mid-March, he’s handed off some duties and shifted focus to chasing superintelligence. Though the news was only made public last month, he tells The Verge, he’d been preparing for the transition for as many as nine months — and though renegotiating Microsoft’s contract with OpenAI is the thing that officially “unlocked [Microsoft’s] ability to pursue superintelligence,” he’d been

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Microsoft says its latest AI image model is a ‘production workhorse.’

MAI-Image-2-Efficient is debuting on Microsoft Foundry and MAI Playground today, as Microsoft’s “best text-to-image model” yet. It’s essentially a faster and cheaper version of MAI-Image-2 that Microsoft claims is a…

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Microsoft Is Scrubbing the Copilot Name From Some Windows 11 Apps - CNET

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MAI-Image-2-Efficient is debuting on Microsoft Foundry and MAI Playground today, as Microsoft’s “best text-to-image model” yet. It’s essentially a faster and cheaper version of MAI-Image-2 that Microsoft claims is a “production workhorse”…

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