"Our job is to further the frontier of AI innovation as much as possible," Ali Alvi, group program manager of Project Turing, told Insider. Insider spoke with AvePoint and Volume.ai, both of whom are using Turing in their own products. Notably, Microsoft isn't only using Turing-NLG, the project's flagship model, internally: It's already begun selling the tech to select partners, hinting at the cloud giant's ambitions for the AI market. If Turing succeeds, the strategy could amplify the research dollars that Microsoft has poured into AI research over previous decades. Project Turing might not be a visible name outside the company, its AI can already be found generating text inside Microsoft Office products and powering much of the curated information provided when searching with Bing. Since 2017, Microsoft has pursued this goal under the name Project Turing, a team that's tasked with building these large language models and figuring out how they can be used in the company's vast suite of products.
"Instead of each product group such as Word, Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint to have their own AI team and develop separate AI models, we really have come together and collaborated to build this large and centralized AI model, which are scaled and specialized later on." "We are really making a culture shift," Microsoft program manager Youngji Kim said in a presentation about the company's technology in November 2020. For Microsoft, this represents a sharp turn from how AI had been traditionally developed at the company. This pressure to churn out features powered by cutting-edge algorithms, as well the price tag for training large algorithms peaking over $1 million, has led companies like Microsoft and Google to start building "foundational models," a research term meaning one large, powerful AI algorithm that's copied and fine-tuned for different projects. Researchers from Google and academia have warned of potential dangers associated with these models.Īrtificial intelligence is a fundamental part of Microsoft's future, as the company fiercely competes to keep its lead in enterprise office tools against Google and catch up to Amazon in cloud computing.The team builds flexible algorithms that are sent to other organizations, or sold as cloud products.Project Turing is Microsoft's research and development team for large language models.
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