GenAI companies go granular with open-source models for agents

Service providers are adopting open-source AI models for several reasons, including flexibility, customization, smaller footprints, and lower computing costs.

Microsoft is building an ensemble of small footprint AI tools that will include open-source AI models for Microsoft 365 that will work offline, said Aparna Chennapragada, Microsoft’s chief product officer of experiences and devices.

These smaller models are aimed at offline users who want to use M365 on Windows AI PCs with Copilot and neural processors. “Our own internal teams are also looking at post-training these models for specific use cases, for example, for writing versus analysis versus image creation, etc.,” Chennapragada said.

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