Microsoft will start ranking artificial intelligence models based on their safety performance, as the software group seeks to build trust with cloud customers as it sells them AI offerings from the likes of OpenAI and Elon Musk’s xAI.
Sarah Bird, Microsoft’s head of Responsible AI, said the company would soon add a “safety” category to its “model leaderboard”, a feature it launched for developers this month to rank iterations from a range of providers including China’s DeepSeek and France’s Mistral.
The leaderboard, which is accessible by tens of thousands of clients using the Azure Foundry developer platform, is expected to influence which AI models and applications are purchased through Microsoft.