MAI-Thinking-1 is Microsoft's first in-house reasoning AI model

Jun 03, 2026

02:32 pm

What's the storyMicrosoft has just kicked off its annual Build conference with a keynote from CEO Satya Nadella. The event was packed with major announcements, including new Surface hardware and updates to Microsoft's in-house AI models.

One of the highlights was the introduction of the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, a mini PC optimized for AI development. The device is powered by NVIDIA's new Arm-based Spark RTX chip and comes with 128GB of unified memory.