Microsoft Build 2026 Launches MAI-Code-1-Flash and MAI-Thinking-1 Reasoning Model
Microsoft announces MAI-Code-1-Flash, its first proprietary coding model built for GitHub Copilot and VS Code with 5 billion active parameters at lower cost than Haiku, plus MAI-Thinking-1 reasoning model matching Sonnet 4.6 in blind evaluations. The models signal Microsoft's push toward independence from OpenAI and Anthropic with clean-data training and no third-party distillation.
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