Microsoft has introduced two home-grown machine learning models, potentially complicating negotiations with its current favored model supplier, OpenAI.

On Thursday, Microsoft AI (MAI) debuted MAI-Voice-1, which generates realistic sounding speech from text, and MAI-1-preview, a model it’s testing as the future basis of the company's Copilot service.

In a Semafor video interview, MAI CEO Mustafa Suleyman explained Microsoft needs its own foundation models is because AI is fundamental to the company's business.

"We have to be able to have the in-house expertise to create the strongest models in the world," he said .

At the same time, Suleyman insisted Microsoft's collaboration with OpenAI has been successful so far, and expressed hope it will continue.

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