{"slug": "microsofts-first-advanced-reasoning-ai-is-here", "title": "Microsoft’s first advanced reasoning AI is here", "summary": "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 software engineering benchmarks and was trained from scratch on clean data without third-party distillation. The release marks Microsoft's deepening shift into independent AI development following its renegotiated partnership with OpenAI.", "body_md": "Microsoft announced a bunch of new in-house AI models at Build 2026, including a new “flagship” model: MAI-Thinking-1. It’s an ambitious step into model development for Microsoft, which introduced its initial in-house models [last year](/news/767809/microsoft-in-house-ai-models-launch-openai) — before then, it had relied on OpenAI’s models. The two companies recently [renegotiated their deal](/tech/921210/microsoft-openai-partnership-divorce-notepad) to loosen ties.\n\n# Microsoft’s first advanced reasoning AI is here\n\nMAI-Thinking-1 is one of seven new models announced at Build 2026.\n\nMAI-Thinking-1 is one of seven new models announced at Build 2026.\n\nAccording [to Microsoft](https://microsoft.ai/news/building-a-hillclimbing-machine-launching-seven-new-mai-models/), MAI-Thinking-1 is a “medium-sized model” that “matches leading models” on “key” software engineering benchmarks. Microsoft says the company “trained it from the ground up on clean data, without distillation from third-party models.”\n\nAs for other models announced today, they’re focused on image generation, transcription, voice, and coding.\n\nMAI-Image 2.5 and the flash version can do text-to-image and image editing. MAI-Transcribe-1.5 is “five times faster than competing models.” MAI-Voice-2 and the flash version of that model (which Microsoft says is “coming soon”) add 15 new languages and new options for voices. The new coding model, MAI-Code-1-Flash, is “inference-efficient” and is integrated into GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio Code.\n\n**Follow topics and authors** from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.\n\n## Most Popular\n\n- Gemini Spark is the most impressive and terrifying AI experience I’ve had yet\n- Gemini’s new AI agent is about as good as Google’s demo\n- These are the first Nvidia RTX Spark laptops\n- This could be Windows’ M1 moment — but expect it to cost a ton\n- This is the Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra with Nvidia RTX Spark", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/microsofts-first-advanced-reasoning-ai-is-here", "canonical_source": "https://www.theverge.com/tech/941664/microsoft-ai-model-reasoning-mai-thinking-1-build-2026", "published_at": "2026-06-02 18:12:44+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-02 20:16:59.559742+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "generative-ai", "ai-products", "ai-research"], "entities": ["Microsoft", "MAI-Thinking-1", "Build 2026", "OpenAI", "MAI-Image 2.5", "MAI-Transcribe-1.5", "MAI-Voice-2", "MAI-Code-1-Flash"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/microsofts-first-advanced-reasoning-ai-is-here", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/microsofts-first-advanced-reasoning-ai-is-here.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/microsofts-first-advanced-reasoning-ai-is-here.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/microsofts-first-advanced-reasoning-ai-is-here.jsonld"}}