Microsoft AI chief says company was “set free” from OpenAI to pursue superintelligence

Microsoft says a revised OpenAI contract now lets it pursue “superintelligence” in-house, and it unveiled seven MAI models spanning reasoning, coding, image, transcription, and voice, trained from scratch on licensed data. It also introduced Frontier Tuning for enterprise customization and highlighted its Maia AI chips and massive GPU buying to cut costs and boost efficiency.