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“1/5 I’ve been at Microsoft for just over a month. It’s been an exhilarating journey getting to know a huge number of people, organizations and projects, without doubt one of the most exciting and fulfilling times I’ve ever experienced. Here’s a few things I’ve learned:” / X
“As I predicted, Microsoft is training its own LLM It’s called MAI-1, a 500B param model, and may be previewed at their Build conference. When this model becomes available, it will only be natural for MSFT to push this instead of the GPT line. As predicted, OAI and MSFT are
Meet MAI-1: Microsoft Readies New AI Model to Compete With Google, OpenAI — The Information
Microsoft Creates Top Secret Generative AI Service for US Spies – Bloomberg
Microsoft Creates Top Secret Generative AI Service for US Spies – Bloomberg
Microsoft launches a mini AI model
Microsoft releases inaugural AI transparency report – The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/2/24147573/microsoft-ai-transparency-responsible-ignore-mario

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This week’s executive overview and top links are here:
AI News #32: Week Ending 05/10/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 70 Links
The post you just read is an deep dive extension of my weekly newsletter, This Week In AI, an executive summary of the top things to know in AI. Each week, I create an accessible overview for laypeople to feel confident they are conversant with the week’s AI developments. I include a curated list of must-click links of the week, to offer everyone a hands-on opportunity to explore the most intriguing updates in artificial intelligence across various categories, including robotics, imagery, video, AR/VR, science, ethics, and more. Beyond the overview, I post these topic-based deeper dives (below). If you haven’t read this week’s overview, I recommend starting there.
- Agents/Copilots
- Amazon
- Apple
- Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
- Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR)
- Autonomous Vehicles
- AI Audio
- Business and Enterprise AI
- Chips and Hardware
- Consumer Products
- Education
- Ethics/Legal Security
- Images/Photos
- International AI News
- Locally Run AI Models
- Mobile
- Meta
- Microsoft
- OpenAI
- Open Source
- Podcasts/YouTube
- Publishing and News
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) News
- Robots and Embodiment
- Science and Medicine
- Video
- Vision/Multimodality
- X/Twitter/Grok
- Tech and Development
Credits/Sources

Most of these weekly links come from just a few prolific oversharing sources. Please follow them, as they work hard to find the news each week and they make it a lot easier for me to compile.
- Robert Scoble: https://x.com/Scobleizer
- Ethan Mollick: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emollick/
- Alan Thompson: https://lifearchitect.ai/
- Theoretically Media: https://www.youtube.com/@TheoreticallyMedia
- The Rundown: https://www.therundown.ai/
- Bilawal Sidhu: https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/
- TLDR: https://tldr.tech/ai
- Jeremiah Owyang: https://twitter.com/jowyang
- Nick St. Pierre: https://twitter.com/nickfloats
- Dr. Jim Fan: https://twitter.com/DrJimFan
- All About AI: https://www.youtube.com/@AllAboutAI
- Marshall Kirkpatrick: https://aitimetoimpact.com/
- AI News (Smol Talk): https://buttondown.email/ainews/archive/
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