Microsoft’s New AI Models: The Noble Attempt at Self-Reliance (With a Dash of Hubris and Humor)
First, there’s MAI-Voice-1, which the company lauds with all the enthusiasm of a literary critic at a poetry reading, as an “expressive system capable of generating natural speech.” It now graces Copilot Daily, Podcasts, and what might be termed the “Copilot Labs experience”-an ecosystem of tasks so broad it makes the Tower of Babel look like a well-organized filing cabinet. Naturally, it handles both one voice and a chorus-because, who doesn’t want a virtual choir?