Is Microsoft Finally Ditching OpenAI?

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September 2, 2025
From AI with Kyle News and Updates Live Stream — Back in the UK 🇬🇧 First aired: 1 September 2025 Watch full edited live stream: https://youtu.be/zYVir9BNAA0 Get the full notes and summary: https://newsletter.aiwithkyle.com/subscribe Useful resources: - Quiz: What AI business should you start? https://aiwithkyle.com/tools - AI Workshop Kit: Become the go-to AI trainer in your industry: https://newsletter.aiwithkyle.com/c/workshop-kit - Webinar: How to get paid $1k-4k an hour to train businesses on AI: https://newsletter.aiwithkyle.com/c/live-webinar Subscribe and turn on notifications to catch the next live stream: https://www.youtube.com/@iamkylebalmer?sub_confirmation=1 Microsoft just released their first homegrown AI models after years of relying on OpenAI's ChatGPT for Copilot. Their new "MAI-1" model ranks 15th on LM Arena - not groundbreaking, but it's a significant step toward independence from OpenAI. The real question is whether Microsoft will hobble their own models with the same excessive safety guardrails that made Copilot worse than regular ChatGPT.