‘We need an AI that places humanity first’: Microsoft AI CEO outlines hopes to build “humanist superintelligence” - and has seven new models to help him do it
- Microsoft reveals seven new AI models
Microsoft’s AI head has unveiled a host of new AI models from the company as it looks to encourage developers to keep pushing the boundaries of the technology.
Mustafa Suelyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, took to the stage at Microsoft Build 2026 to announce the new launches, but also explain more about the company’s reasoning in its AI development.
He noted that Microsoft’s AI work would always look to support human workers and users, not replace them, as it looks to create what the company calls “humanist superintelligence”.
“Humanist superintelligence”
“We really are living in the most remarkable times,” Suleyman said, “since I started working in AI, the compute that we use to train frontier models has increased by 1 trillion fold - that’s 12 orders of magnitude in just 15 years. It’s now clear that a consistent, exponential increase in computation leads...
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