Microsoft's first reasoning model, MAI-Thinking-1, is now in public preview in Microsoft Foundry, and it is designed for multi-step reasoning tasks. The model integrates with Microsoft.Extensions.AI a…
Microsoft introduced MAI-Thinking-1, a 35B-active, ~1T-total parameter sparse Mixture of Experts reasoning model that matches leading models on software engineering benchmarks and is preferred to Sonn…
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 has deployed MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, a compact AI model derived from its MAI-Thinking-1 reasoning model, to handle up to 90% of routine security tasks within its MDASH multi-agent framework. The …
Microsoft shares surged more than 16% after reporting fourth-quarter revenue of $90 billion, beating analysts' expectations, driven by a 43% jump in Azure cloud business and over 30 million paid seats…
Microsoft announced MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, its first in-house cybersecurity model, on July 27, 2026, designed to analyze codebases for vulnerabilities within the MDASH multi-agent system. The company repo…
Microsoft introduced MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, its first AI model trained to identify and fix security weaknesses, integrated into the MDASH multi-model agentic scanning harness. The announcement comes less …
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%…
At Build 2026 on June 2, Microsoft launched seven proprietary MAI models including its first in-house reasoning system MAI-Thinking-1, cutting inference costs by up to 89% versus OpenAI equivalents an…
Microsoft has trained its sales staff to promote its new in-house MAI models over OpenAI and Anthropic alternatives, unveiling seven models at Build 2026 including the 35-billion-parameter MAI-Thinkin…
Microsoft published a 109-page technical report on its MAI-Thinking-1 reasoning model, detailing the entire training process from web scraping to final optimization. The report reveals that 54.6% of t…
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…
Microsoft released a reasoning model called MAI-Thinking-1, trained without synthetic data, highlighting the team's choices to filter out certain data and avoid specific training methods.…
Microsoft unveiled Project Solara, a chip-to-cloud platform for agent-first devices that run AI agents instead of traditional apps, at Build 2026. The platform includes prototypes built with Qualcomm …
Microsoft has released MAI-Thinking-1, its first in-house reasoning model built from scratch by the Microsoft AI lab using a sparse Mixture of Experts architecture. The medium-sized model achieves 97%…
Microsoft AI released a detailed technical report on the development of its first model, MAI-Thinking-1, emphasizing a controlled, reproducible training process built on human-generated data and propr…
Reve and Ideogram both launched new image-generation models on June 2, 2026, with each company emphasizing advances in layout control through improved labeling and code. Ideogram 4.0 is now ranked as …
Microsoft's MAI-Thinking-1 report introduces an "efficiency gain" (EG) metric that compares candidate model architectures against a baseline by measuring how much compute is needed to reach the same l…
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 on Tuesday released two new text-to-image AI models, MAI-Image-2.5 and MAI-Image-2.5 Flash, which outperformed Google's Nano Banana 2 in image editing benchmarks on the Arena AI leaderboard.…