Microsoft pushed MAI-Code-1.1-Flash into GitHub Copilot on August 11, 2026, with a 73% price cut, native vision support, and benchmark gains, and will retire MAI-Code-1-Flash from all Copilot surfaces…
GitHub announced the deprecation of MAI-Code-1-Flash across all GitHub Copilot experiences on September 10, 2026, following the launch of MAI-Code-1.1-Flash. Users are advised to update workflows and …
Microsoft released MAI-Code-1.1-Flash on August 11th and put the coding model into production in GitHub Copilot, replacing the first version of its in-house coding model just 10 weeks after launch. Th…
Microsoft introduced MAI-Code-1-Flash, a 5B active-parameter coding model designed for efficiency and integrated with GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio Code. The company reports up to 60% fewer tokens …
Microsoft's MAI-Code-1.1-Flash, a small-tier coding model with native vision support, is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot, offering a 73% lower list price than its predecessor MAI-Code-1-Flash. The m…
Microsoft's MAI-Code-1-Flash, a lightweight coding model for GitHub Copilot in VS Code, outperforms Claude Haiku 4.5 and GPT-5.4 Mini on code quality while using fewer tokens, according to aggregate d…
Microsoft AI released MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, a 137B-total-parameter cybersecurity model with 5B active parameters and 256k context length, designed for defensive tasks. Running inside Microsoft's MDASH mu…
Microsoft's in-house MAI-Code-1-Flash model, post-trained within GitHub Copilot's harness, achieves approximately 10% higher code accept rate than GPT 5.4 Mini and Claude Haiku 4.5 in VS Code, with 6%…
GitHub held a webinar on July 13, 2026, covering the latest features of GitHub Copilot, enterprise management, and usage-based billing. Key updates include plans for more granular .github-private sett…
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…