Ep 72: Microsoft just gained the freedom to build its own frontier models after a contract change with OpenAI, and the first MAI family is already shipping.

Models & Agents Microsoft just gained the freedom to build its own frontier models after a contract change with OpenAI, and the first MAI family is already shipping. What You Need to Know: Microsoft announced seven in-house MAI models spanning reasoning, code, image, transcription, and voice, trained from scratch on licensed data without distillation. A major open-weight release wave also landed this week across LLMs, VLMs, TTS, and world models. ... AI Disclosure: This podcast is curated by Patrick but uses AI-generated voice synthesis for audio production. 📝 Full show notes, transcript & sources: read the episode page 🌐 Part of the Nerra Network — explore every show at nerranetwork.com.