Microsoft has unveiled its latest midsized model as it seeks to gain a foothold in the technology, but AI chief Mustafa Suleyman said the tech giant still lacks the computing power needed to build cutting-edge systems. The software giant on Thursday released a speech transcription model that Suleyman called the most advanced of its kind, as it steps up efforts to close in on rivals and reduce its reliance on OpenAI. Microsoft has yet to release large language models capable of competing in more sophisticated areas such as coding and text generation, where it lags market leaders Anthropic, Google and OpenAI.

Full report : Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft is “not able to build models in the very largest scale yet” but its “computation ramp is coming to enable us to do” it in 2026.