Microsoft is entering a new phase in its journey to develop artificial intelligence (AI), when Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of AI, announced that the company will be completely autonomous in AI research and development, including artificial intelligence (AGI - Artificial General Intelligence).
In a sharing with Business Insider, Suleyman emphasized: Microsoft needs autonomy in AI. To do that, we have to train advanced models on all scales, with our own data and computing capabilities.
The announcement came just weeks after Microsoft and OpenAI revised the cooperation agreement, including new terms on intellectual property, API access, and the ability to develop AGI independently.
The agreement stipulates that Microsoft will maintain its pioneering model partnership with OpenAI until 2032, but is now allowed to research AGI itself or cooperate with third parties.
Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind, a famous AI company acquired by Google, has also announced the establishment of the Superintelligence Group at Microsoft.
The team's mission is to address the core issues that are hampering the development of large-scale AI systems, while expanding the application of AI in healthcare, energy and transportation, with the goal of reducing living costs for billions of people in the next 10 years.
He also affirmed that Microsoft currently has a revenue of 300 billion USD and has a great responsibility in ensuring that all products are integrated with AI, deploying smart agents (AI agents) to the entire product ecosystem to increase efficiency for users.
Over the years, Microsoft's AI strategy has focused on small models and collaborations with OpenAI.
However, the establishment of a super-intellectual group shows that the company is gradually shifting to internal research, building separate infrastructure capacity and AI models, not dependent on partners.
However, Suleyman affirmed that AI safety is still the focus: These systems can become extremely smart. We must design them so that they do not get out of control, so that people always maintain the top position".
He believes that developing AGI must aim at the common benefits of society, not just a technology race.
Analysts say that although Microsoft is trying to be autonomous, the super-intellectual race will become increasingly fierce, as the big guys like Google DeepMind, Meta, Anthropic and OpenAI themselves accelerate.
However, with financial potential and strategic position, Microsoft is said to be laying a solid foundation for the future of global artificial intelligence.
