Microsoft's AI chief Mustafa Suleyman said the company is making significant investments in the computing capacity needed to build the company's leading artificial intelligence (AI) models .
"We need to have the capacity to build world-class frontier models internally at all sizes, but we need to be very pragmatic and use other models if necessary," he said at a Microsoft employee-only meeting on Thursday (September 11).
"We're also going to make significant investments in our own clusters, so today MAI-1-preview is only trained on 15,000 H100s, which is a very small cluster at scale," he was quoted as saying in The Verge's Friday broadcast.
Suleyman hinted that Microsoft has ambitions to train models comparable to the efforts of Meta, Google, and xAI on clusters six to ten times larger than the ones Microsoft used for the MAI-1 preview.
"There's still a lot to do, but this is a good first step," Suleyman said.
