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Running AI at scale is expensive, and consumption-based services can make budgets harder to predict. Steve Corey explains Microsoft’s MAI family of in-house models, the role of multi-model orchestration, and why routine work should not automatically be sent to the most expensive model. The episode reviews MAI models for reasoning, coding, image generation, voice, and transcription, then considers how efficient routing could affect Copilot credits, pay-as-you-go usage, custom agents, and AI return on investment.
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Topics Covered
• The cost of operating AI at scale
• Copilot licensing and consumption-based pricing
• Copilot credits and variable AI costs
• Microsoft’s MAI model family
• Multi-model orchestration and automatic routing
• Reasoning, coding, image, voice, and transcription models
• Pay-as-you-go cost management
• Cost-conscious custom agent design
• Matching model capability to task complexity
• AI solution feasibility and return on investment
Key Takeaways
• Not every request requires a frontier model.
• Efficient routing can reserve expensive models for genuinely complex work.
• Model choice directly affects the consumption profile of AI solutions.
• Custom agents can use different models for routine and critical steps.
• Organizations should continually reassess which models their workloads use.
• Lower-cost models may make usage more manageable, but consumption remains variable.
Chapters
00:00:00 Welcome to the Copilot Briefing
00:00:32 Why AI Costs Matter
00:01:37 The Copilot Pricing Challenge
00:03:14 Introducing Microsoft MAI
00:03:49 Why Microsoft Built Its Own Models
00:05:19 Multi-Model Orchestration
00:06:12 How Model Routing Works
00:06:56 MAI Model Lineup
00:07:01 Reasoning Model
00:07:53 Coding Model
00:08:23 Image Model
00:09:25 Voice Model
00:10:11 Transcription Model
00:10:49 Implications for Copilot Costs
00:12:18 Pay-As-You-Go Economics
00:13:20 Custom AI Cost Control
00:13:52 The Bottom Line
00:15:20 Podcast Takeaways
🔗 Links
MAI Models - (Microsoft Techcommunity)
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