Microsoft is accelerating its push to compete with OpenAI, its longtime collaborator, by creating its personal highly effective AI fashions and exploring alternate options to energy merchandise like Microsoft’s Copilot bot.

Microsoft has developed its personal AI “reasoning” fashions corresponding to fashions like OpenAI’s o1 and o3-mini, the The Information stories. OpenAI is claimed to have refused Microsoft’s requests for technical particulars about how o1 works — stoking tensions between the companies.

Microsoft has additionally developed a household of fashions referred to as MAI which can be aggressive with OpenAI’s personal, Bloomberg reports, and is reportedly contemplating providing them by an API later this 12 months. Parallel to these efforts, Microsoft is claimed to be testing different AI fashions from xAI, Meta, Anthropic, and DeepSeek as potential replacements for OpenAI know-how in Copilot.

Microsoft, which has invested round $14 billion in OpenAI thus far, has appeared to hedge its bets in plenty of methods, together with hiring DeepMind and Inflection co-founder Mustafa Suleyman to steer the tech large’s AI efforts.