Today was a big day, not least because we caught up on the state of GitHub vs Agents, and recorded a special pod with No Priors and Satya Nadella — at MS Build, Satya and Mustafa announced 7 new MAI models:This is an impressive lineup, especially considering that the Microsoft-Inflection deal that set up MAI only happened 2 years ago, and that these are all from-scratch pretrains. MAI today is by no means an unqualified frontier lab, but it is a good tier 2 neolab with obvious incentives to support domain specific finetunes (as opposed to the frontier labs who have ~all killed finetuning).The star of the show was the 100+ page MAI tech report, which the research community is giving glowing reviews:elie@eliebakouchmicrosoft MAI tech report is a gold mine, one of the most transparent for a model at this scale.
this model uses zero synthetic data or distillation from previous models. this means reasoning, agentic behavior, tool use are all learned fully during post-training with no coldMustafa Suleyman @mustafasuleymanSuper excited to announce seven new world-class MAI models today. They represent what we consider a new era in AI designed to keep you in control and on the frontier.
First is our text foundation model, MAI-Thinking-1, exceptionally strong on reasoning and SWE tasks.
