Microsoft's new MAI Code 1.1 Flash gets crushed by Deepseek on both price and performance

Microsoft has released MAI Code 1.1 Flash, a code model for GitHub Copilot. It's hard to see the point of Microsoft's MAI models when they trail OpenWeight alternatives on both price and performance, the same models Microsoft keeps saying it's a massive fan of.

Microsoft says the new model writes better code, is 25 percent more token-efficient, and costs a quarter of its June predecessor. Developers accepted 4 percent more of its output. Training involved "hundreds of thousands of reinforcement-learning environments in GitHub Copilot." In benchmarks, it edges past its predecessor and mini-models from Anthropic and OpenAI but gets crushed by Deepseek-V4-Flash-0731.

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