GitHub switched Copilot to usage-based AI credit billing on June 1, causing some Pro+ subscribers to deplete their monthly allocation within two days. The model price spread is 24x, with GPT-5.5 costi…
Microsoft has begun routing AI prompts in Excel, Outlook, and GitHub Copilot from OpenAI and Anthropic models to its own in-house MAI models, with tens of thousands of weekly prompts already completed…
GitHub Copilot switched to metered AI Credits billing on June 1, 2026, causing some Pro+ users to exhaust their monthly allocation in under two days due to high token consumption from frontier models …
Microsoft launched MAI-Code-1-Flash, a 137B-parameter sparse Mixture-of-Experts model with 5B active parameters, in GitHub Copilot on June 2, one day after GitHub switched to usage-based AI Credits bi…
Microsoft launched MAI-Code-1-Flash, its proprietary AI coding model, to general availability for GitHub Copilot Business and Enterprise subscribers. The model offers rapid, low-latency code generatio…
Microsoft AI's MAI-Code-1-Flash coding model is now generally available for GitHub Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise, offering fast, low-latency responses for high-volume agentic coding workflow…
Microsoft expanded its in-house coding model MAI-Code-1-Flash to all GitHub Copilot surfaces on June 18, coinciding with the launch of usage-based billing. The 137B-parameter sparse MoE model costs up…
GitHub quietly replaced flat-rate Copilot pricing with token-metered billing called GitHub AI Credits on June 1, causing one developer on the $39/month Pro+ plan to receive a $180 bill and others to p…
Microsoft's MAI-Code-1-Flash, a small coding model, is now available on additional GitHub Copilot surfaces including Copilot CLI, GitHub Copilot app, Copilot Chat, Visual Studio, GitHub Mobile, JetBra…
GitHub's new token-based billing for Copilot, effective June 1, 2026, introduces a 24x price gap between the cheapest and most expensive models, according to an engineer's analysis of the pricing tabl…
Microsoft unveiled seven new MAI models at Build 2026, including the MAI-Thinking-1 reasoning model and MAI-Code-1-Flash, as the company shifts toward powering its own products with proprietary AI rat…
Microsoft at its Build developer conference in San Francisco on June 2 unveiled a new family of in-house MAI models, including a 35-billion-parameter reasoning model called MAI-Thinking-1 and a coding…
Microsoft announced seven new MAI models at Build 2026, including a reasoning model, a coding model, and an image generation model, signaling a shift toward building specialized, production-oriented m…
Microsoft unveiled MAI-Thinking-1, a 35-billion-parameter reasoning model, and MAI-Code-1-Flash, a 5-billion-parameter coding model, at Build 2026. MAI-Code-1-Flash is integrated into GitHub Copilot a…
Microsoft released two new text LLMs, MAI-Thinking-1 and MAI-Code-1-Flash, with the 35-billion-parameter reasoning model outperforming Sonnet 4.6 in blind evaluations. The company trained both models …
Microsoft unveiled a suite of new in-house AI models at its Build conference, including MAI-Thinking-1, MAI-Code-1-Flash, and MAI-Image-2.5, alongside the next-generation Majorana 2 quantum chip, whic…
Microsoft released seven new AI models under its MAI brand on June 2 at the Build developer conference in San Francisco, marking the company's largest single expansion of its in-house AI lineup. The m…
Microsoft released MAI-Code-1-Flash, a new coding model built for fast, efficient assistance in everyday developer workflows, rolling out to GitHub Copilot individual users in Visual Studio Code. The …
Microsoft announced MAI-Thinking-1, its first advanced reasoning AI model, at Build 2026 as part of a suite of seven new in-house models. The medium-sized model matches leading competitors on key soft…