(April 2): Microsoft Corp aims to develop large, cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) models by next year, part of a push to build in-house alternatives to the most powerful AI tools from OpenAI and Anthropic. “We must deliver the absolute frontier,” said Mustafa Suleyman, the chief executive officer of Microsoft AI, said in an interview. “Certainly by 2027, the objective is to really get to state-of-the-art” across models that can respond to or generate text, images and audio. Microsoft is assembling the computing horsepower to build more broadly capable models, Suleyman said. In exchange for the license to incorporate ChatGPT into its products, Microsoft was prohibited from developing its own broadly capable models.

Source: The Edge Markets April 02, 2026 14:35 UTC