Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman: Microsoft still lacks the computing power needed to …

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman has said that the company still lacks the computing power needed to build systems at the largest scale. This comes even as the software giant continues to invest in expanding its capabilities and reducing reliance on external partners. “We are not able to build models in the very largest scale yet although our computation ramp is coming to enable us to do that later this year,” Suleyman told the Financial Times. “So we’re competing in the mid-class range,” he added, describing the position as “optimal” in balancing cost, performance, quality and large-scale usage.

The remarks come as Microsoft unveiled a new speech transcription model as part of its broader push to strengthen its position in AI.