frontier-tuning-7453ba2d·1 events·first seen Aliases: Frontier Tuning
Microsoft announced seven new AI models trained from scratch (not distilled from OpenAI), including the flagship MAI-Thinking-1 reasoning model and MAI-Transcribe-1.5, plus a 'Frontier Tuning' reinforcement learning approach for enterprise workflow training. GitHub released a desktop Copilot app designed to manage multiple parallel AI agents with isolated git worktrees and bidirectional canvases. Microsoft also launched Web IQ, an agent-native Bing-powered grounding API already powering search in Copilot and ChatGPT, running 2.5x faster than alternatives with lower token costs. The roundup also covers Nous Research's Hermes Desktop cross-platform agent app, Alibaba's Qwen3.7-Plus multimodal model, and OpenAI's role-specific Codex plugins.