The title’s “hill-climbing machine” refers to Microsoft’s iterative, scientifically rigorous engineering framework. By tightly linking clean data pipelines, specialized training infrastructure, and reinforcement learning environments, they have created an optimization loop designed to steadily “climb” toward higher capabilities as compute scales.

Today we are announcing a family of seven new models developed in-house at Microsoft AI. Beyond these models, we’re building a superintelligence lab – a system and an approach we believe will define the next phase of AI.

This is an extraordinary time in technology. The compute used to train frontier models has increased by a factor of one trillion. Now we expect another thousand-fold increase over the next three years, which in turn means more advanced capabilities, and the continued rollout of ever more effective AI.

This epic compute ramp will change the nature of work, business and daily life. We all have to prepare for this reality. Our job at MAI is to help you do this – to push the frontier, and to build a hill-climbing machine to keep you at the frontier.