At this year's Build developer conference, a major expansion of an in-house model portfolio was just unveiled, marking a bold new direction for Microsoft.
Microsoft launches MAI-Thinking-1 (35B reasoning) and MAI-Code-1 for Copilot, replacing OpenAI/Anthropic. Vertical integration narrows vendor choice but reduces switching costs; signals intensifying AI consolidation among cloud giants competing for stack dominance.
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Microsoft officially announced a major expansion of its in-house MAI model family, developed by the Microsoft AI Superintelligence team.
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