Microsoft now has its own model family

The single most strategically important news is MAI — a family of seven in-house models from Microsoft’s AI Superintelligence Team. The anchor, MAI-Thinking-1, is Microsoft’s first dedicated reasoning model: a mid-sized 35B active-parameter model with a 256K context window, trained from scratch on clean, commercially licensed data. Microsoft claims independent raters prefer it to Sonnet […]