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| Company type | Division |
|---|---|
| Founded | March 19, 2024; 22 months ago (2024-03-19) |
| Headquarters | , United States |
Number of locations | 8 (2025) |
Key people | Mustafa Suleyman (CEO) |
| Products | |
Number of employees | 10,000 (2025) |
| Parent | Microsoft |
| Website | microsoft |
Microsoft AI (MAI) is an Americanartificial intelligence (AI)research laboratory which serves as a division of Microsoft. It oversees consumer artificial intelligence products. The company is based at Microsoft's headquarters inRedmond, Washington with offices inNew York City,London,Mountain View,Beijing,Suzhou,Hyderabad andZurich.[1]
Before the creation of Microsoft AI, Microsoft researchers had already released several notable conversational‑AI models, includingDialoGPT, introduced on November 1, 2019 as aGPT‑2 based dialogue generator trained on 147M Reddit conversations.[2][3][4]
MAI was founded in March 19, 2024, the company would overseeMicrosoft Copilot and several other services previously developed by other teams such asEdge andBing, it would also help provide resources and co-develop for theMicrosoft 365 app. The company appointedDeepMind andInflection AI co-founderMustafa Suleyman as Executive Vice President (EVP) and CEO and hired fellow Inflection AI co-founder Karén Simonyan as Chief Scientist. Microsoft's previous artificial intelligence team was absorbed into the company, with its employees joining it.[5][6][7]
In April 7, 2024, MAI opened a AI hub inLondon, it would be led by Jordan Hoffmann which was previously worked at DeepMind, staff that worked on AI prior to MAI's founding would be moved to the new hub.[8][9]
On May 2025, followingSkype's shutdown,GroupMe was moved under MAI and was integrated with Copilot.[10]
On June 30, 2025, MAI announced that they would be developing a tool called “Microsoft AI Diagnostic Orchestrator”, the company claims its four times more successful than human doctors at diagnosing complex ailments, the tool could be released on MAI's products in the future.[11]
On August 28, 2025, MAI announced its first in-house models for its products called MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview, the company's products has usually usedOpenAI's models in the past and present.[12] On October 13, 2025, MAI announced a new in-housetext-to-image model called MAI-Image-1.[13]
On November 6, 2025, MAI announced the creation of asuperintelligence division and team led by Mustafa Suleyman, with the vision for a humanist superintelligence with three main applications, which include serving as an AI companion that will help people learn, act, be productive, and feel supported, offering assistance in the healthcare industry, and creating “new scientific breakthroughs” in clean energy.[14]
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