Microsoft Microsoft is accelerating its push to compete with OpenAI, its longtime collaborator, according to a report.

According to The Information report, Microsoft’s AI division, led by Mustafa Suleyman, has completed the training of a family of models, internally referred to as MAI, which perform nearly as well as the leading models from OpenAI and Anthropic on commonly accepted benchmarks.

Self-sufficiency in AI has become a top priority for the company, but homegrown models rumored for release last year are still in testing.