Microsoft launches 7 AI models and takes aim at the frontierAt Build 2026, Microsoft unveiled its new MAI model family, covering reasoning, coding, image generation, speech synthesis, and transcription.
Key releases:
• MAI-Thinking-1 - reasoning model that Microsoft says rivals top coding models and performs on par with Claude Sonnet 4.6 in blind evaluations.
• MAI-Code-1-Flash - a lightweight 5B coding model for GitHub Copilot and VS Code.
• MAI-Image-2.5 - image generation and editing model competing with Nano Banana Pro.
• MAI-Voice-2 and MAI-Transcribe-1.5 - speech models supporting up to 43 languages.
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