Microsoft's new MAI models★ 72
Simon Willison's Weblog·3h ago·Release
Microsoft announced MAI-Thinking-1, a 35B reasoning model available to select early partners, and MAI-Code-1-Flash, a 5B coding model rolling out to GitHub Copilot individual users in VS Code.
Simon Willison highlights their relatively small parameter counts and Microsoft's claim that MAI-Thinking-1 was preferred to Sonnet 4.6 in internal blind evaluations.
He also questions what Microsoft's clean and appropriately licensed training data claims mean in practice.
