Microsoft reportedly ramps up AI efforts to compete with OpenAI

Group 1 - Microsoft is intensifying its competition with OpenAI by developing its own AI models and exploring alternatives for products like Copilot [1][2] - The company has created AI "reasoning" models that are comparable to OpenAI's o1 and o3-mini, amid rising tensions due to OpenAI's refusal to share technical details [1] - Microsoft has developed a family of models called MAI, which are competitive with OpenAI's offerings, and is considering providing them through an API later this year [2] Group 2 - Microsoft has invested approximately $14 billion in OpenAI and is diversifying its AI strategy by hiring industry experts like Mustafa Suleyman from DeepMind [3] - The company is testing alternative AI models from xAI, Meta, Anthropic, and DeepSeek as potential replacements for OpenAI technology in its Copilot product [2]