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MAI

Microsoft AI’s in-house language, coding, and reasoning models for Copilot and developer platforms.

First model
2025
Models
4
Latest
MAI-Code-1.1-Flash

01 / LINEAGE MAP

Model lineage

predecessor derived / sibling
  1. 2025-08-28MAI-1-previewLanguage
  2. 2026-06-02MAI-Code-1-FlashCoding · Agent
  3. 2026-06-02MAI-Thinking-1Reasoning
  4. 2026-08-11MAI-Code-1.1-FlashCoding · AgentPredecessor · MAI-Code-1-Flash

02 / GENERATIONS

What changed

01

MAI-1-preview

Microsoft’s first foundation model trained end-to-end, introduced for public testing on LMArena as an early MAI milestone.

02

MAI-Code-1-Flash

Microsoft’s efficient coding model trained from scratch and introduced in GitHub Copilot, not distilled from another model.

03

MAI-Thinking-1

Microsoft’s model for complex reasoning, available in public preview through Microsoft Foundry.

04

MAI-Code-1.1-Flash

The production successor in GitHub Copilot, improving code quality and token efficiency.