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Microsoft just made its biggest move yet to stop depending on OpenAI and they did it quietly. Also, a startup raised $250M to fix 40% of your monthly expenses using AI.
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AI INSIGHTS
After years of riding shotgun with OpenAI, Microsoft is officially rolling out its own in-house models: MAI-1-preview for text and MAI-Voice-1 for speech. And while they’re still early, the message is loud and clear: Microsoft is building its own AI core, fast.
MAI-Voice-1
Speech model generating 60s of audio in under 1s
Already powers Copilot Daily, Podcasts, and now in Copilot Labs
Natural, multi-speaker, expressive voice outputs
Supports interactive storytelling, meditation scripts, and more
MAI-1-preview
Microsoft’s first in-house text foundation model
Trained on ~15K NVIDIA H100s
Focus: everyday queries, instruction-following
Now live on LM Arena for public testing
API access available for trusted testers
Microsoft doesn’t want to rely solely on OpenAI (especially after recent turbulence). Basically, owning the model = owning the margin.
Also notable: Microsoft isn’t ditching OpenAI, they’re hedging. MAI-1 sits alongside GPT-4, open-source models, and other partner integrations. It’s a model buffet built for whatever gets the job done.
Why It Matters: MAI-1 is still preview, but positioning itself as a strong instruction-following model for practical, daily use. This is Microsoft’s “we’re not just OpenAI’s wallet” moment. More to come.
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TODAY IN AI
AI HIGHLIGHTS
📃 KPMG developed a 100-page prompt that drastically reduces report creation time from 2 weeks to 24 hours, supported by OpenAI & Microsoft. See the prompt here.
📝 ChatGPT's new feature, QuizGPT, lets you make flashcard quizzes from notes or PDFs for free! It's available on desktops and mobiles now. Here’s one chat example.
🎨 Krea just dropped a real-time video creator. You can literally watch it animate as you sketch or change input: fully controllable + frame-consistent. Join the waitlist here.
📱 Higgsfield dropped 2,000+ apps by Google’s new ‘Nano banana’ that let you create different types of content, like commercials & effects, in 1 click. You can try it out here.
👀 There are 32 different ways AI can go rogue, from hallucinating answers to a complete misalignment. This is the new research created to categorize all the ways AI can go wrong.
🖼️ If you're still unsure which phone has the best AI image editing, one user actually compared Apple, Galaxy, and Xiaomi removal AI tool. And the results were surprising.
💰 AI Daily Fundraising: EliseAI raised $250M from a16z to fix healthcare & housing with AI. These two sectors make up 40% of U.S. household costs. EliseAI now powers 10% of U.S. apartments.
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AI QUICK HITS
🖥️ Microsoft’s Copilot featured ChatGPT's multi-file analysis for free
👨 TIME Magazine released 2025 TIME100 AI list, featuring top leaders
👨⚕️ AI spots hidden signs of consciousness in patients before doctors do
💻 Meta will let anyone create lifelike AI NPCs to hold realistic chats
👨💻 OpenAI rolled out new features for its Codex development tool
AI CHART
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Optional agentic pipeline that double-checks complex content. Useful for contracts, compliance, or anything high-stakes.Enterprise-Grade Customization
Companies can train the model on their own terms literally. Pharma firms can input drug names, banks can teach it financial lingo.Private Deployment (Air-Gapped Option)
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