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MAI-Thinking-1

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Aliases: MAI-Thinking-1

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7Latent Space·14d ago·source ↗

Microsoft Build recap: MAI-Thinking-1 and MAI Family models announced

Microsoft unveiled MAI-Thinking-1 and the broader MAI family of models at Microsoft Build 2026, as covered in the Latent Space AINews recap. The announcement represents Microsoft's push into frontier reasoning models under its own brand, distinct from its OpenAI partnership. Technical details of the MAI model family are discussed, signaling a significant strategic move toward Microsoft-native AI model development.

7The Batch·12d ago·source ↗

Microsoft Build: Seven in-house AI models, GitHub Copilot desktop agent manager, and Web IQ search API for agents

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.