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Title: Microsoft AI Chief Sees Advantage in Building Models '3 or 6 Months
Behind'

Link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/04/07/1354...

Microsoft's AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says the company has deliberately
chosen to build AI models "three or six months behind" cutting-edge
developments, citing cost savings and more focused implementation. "It's
cheaper to give a specific answer once you've waited for the first three or
six months for the frontier to go first. We call that off-frontier," Suleyman
told CNBC. "That's actually our strategy, is to really play a very tight
second, given the capital-intensiveness of these models." Microsoft owns
substantial Nvidia GPU capacity but sees no need to develop "the absolute
frontier, the best model in the world first," as it would be "very, very
expensive" and create unnecessary duplication, Suleyman said. Despite its
$13.75 billion investment in OpenAI, Microsoft added the startup to its list
of competitors in July 2024. OpenAI subsequently announced a partnership with
Oracle on its $500 billion Stargate project, departing from exclusive
reliance on Microsoft's Azure cloud. "Look, it's absolutely mission-critical
that long-term, we are able to do AI self-sufficiently at Microsoft,"
Suleyman said, while stressing the partnership with OpenAI would continue
"until 2030 at least."

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