According to reports, Microsoft is creating AI reasoning models to rival OpenAI.
According to a person involved in the program, The Information revealed on Friday that Microsoft is creating its own artificial intelligence reasoning models to compete with OpenAI and may offer them to developers.
According to the report, the Redmond, Washington-based business, which is a significant supporter of OpenAI, has started experimenting with models from xAI, Meta, and DeepSeek as possible OpenAI substitutes in Copilot.
Even if its early collaboration with the firm placed Microsoft at the forefront of its Big Tech colleagues in the lucrative AI race, the company has been seeking to lessen its reliance on the ChatGPT creator.
The Information reported on Friday that Microsoft is developing its own AI reasoning models to rival OpenAI and could make them available to developers, according to a person with knowledge of the initiative.
The report claims that the company, which is based in Redmond, Washington, and is a major advocate of OpenAI, has begun testing models from xAI, Meta, and DeepSeek as potential OpenAI alternatives in Copilot.
Microsoft has been working to reduce its dependency on the business that created ChatGPT, even though its early partnership with the startup put it ahead of its Big Tech rivals in the lucrative AI race.
According to the study, the company is also developing reasoning models that might directly compete with OpenAI’s. These models employ chain-of-thought procedures, a reasoning process that produces responses with intermediate reasoning abilities while tackling complex problems.
According to the story, Suleyman’s team is already testing replacing the MAI models in Copilot with OpenAI’s models, which are significantly larger than an earlier family of Microsoft models known as Phi.
According to the source, the corporation is thinking of making the MAI models available as an application programming interface later this year so that independent developers can include them into their own programs.
Requests for response from Reuters were not immediately answered by Microsoft or OpenAI.
