Microsoft debuts MAI-Thinking-1, its first advanced reasoning AI model, trained “from the ground up on clean data, without distillation from third-party models”
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Discussion
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@tuhinone
Tuhin Srivastava
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Today we're announcing MAI-Thinking-1 with Microsoft and it will be available on Baseten soon. Microsoft built something genuinely different here: a commercial-grade thinking model trained on clean data with no distillation from third-party models and designed to be fine-tuned [i…
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@hannahajishirzi
Hanna Hajishirzi
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MAI-Thinking-1 is out! Excited to share what we are building and how climbing from scratch (no distillation) actually works: simple recipes, rigorous science, self-distillation, patience, and great infra. Check out our tech report has the full story of our RL climbs. [image]
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@eliebakouch
Elie
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microsoft 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 cold [ima…
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@kylelostat
Kyle Lo
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happy to share another quality tech report w/ the wider research community 🫶 great read for ppl who want to see all the details for methods + infra for scaling up pretraining & RL, esp detailed discussion about data which is often kept vague by other labs [image]
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@tyleraromero
Tyler Romero
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We've released MAI-Thinking-1! This is @MicrosoftAI's first general-purpose reasoning model. The team has also published a tech report detailing the interesting science and engineering work behind it. [image]
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@microsoftai
@microsoftai
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MAI-Thinking-1: A powerful reasoning model developed from scratch that is competitive with models of similar size on STEM reasoning and coding tasks. Our pre-training focused on a simple scaling emphasizing data-driven iterative improvements to our architecture and data. Our [ima…
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@baseten
@baseten
on x
Today, Baseten and @MicrosoftAI are excited to announce that MAI-Thinking-1 is coming to Baseten. MAI-Thinking-1 is a model you can fine-tune without giving your data to the lab. Key characteristics include: → Clean data lineage, with zero distillation from third-party models [im…
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@scaling01
@scaling01
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Microsoft introduces MAI-Thinking-1 It's a 1T@35B parameter model pre-trained on 30T tokens with a maximum context length of 256k tokens using 8192 GB200 GPUs. Based on benchmarks it seems to be around GLM-5 level. Microsoft also released a comprehensive 109 pages tech-report: [i…
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@bindureddy
Bindu Reddy
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Finally, Microsoft enters the AI arena! They just announced two foundation models - MAI and Mai-Flash They used to have a great research lab... and early benchmarks look good 🚀🚀 [image]
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@microsoftai
@microsoftai
on x
We're excited to work with @Baseten to make MAI-Thinking-1 available to developers and enterprises.
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@microh
@microh
on bluesky
Another thing Microsoft executives can complain about you not using. [embedded post]
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@mustafasuleyman
Mustafa Suleyman
on x
Super 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. - It's a …
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@arena
@arena
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MAI-Image-2.5 has officially released from @MicrosoftAI landing at #2 in the Image Edit Arena (Single-Image-Edit) with a score of 1401 and advances the Pareto frontier! This puts the model +10 pts over Nano Banana 2, Grok Imagine Image Quality and ChatGPT-Image-Latest-High [image…
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@pierceboggan
Pierce Boggan
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Introducing MAI-Code-1-Flash A new coding model from Microsoft for fast, efficient assistance in everyday workflows Rolling out to @code developers in model picker and Auto now! https://microsoft.ai/... [image]
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@tomwarren
Tom Warren
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Microsoft is announcing MAI-Thinking-1 today, its first advanced reasoning AI model. It's built for math and coding primarily, and is part of 7 new AI models Microsoft is launching today. Details 👇 https://www.theverge.com/...
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@altryne
Alex Volkov
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I tried this new model 3 times via @OpenRouter and got a typo in the text in each one. I don't understand how it's claimed to be higher than Nano Banana... is it only measuring editing tasks on this leaderboard?
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@lmsysorg
@lmsysorg
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Huge milestone for the Microsoft AI team: seven frontier MAI models, led by MAI-Thinking-1. Proud that SGLang powered the RL inference stack behind it. Their Rocket framework runs SGLang and the SGLang router for load balancing, traffic control, prefix caching, and graceful
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@microsoft
@microsoft
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The @MicrosoftAI model family expands in Microsoft Foundry with 7 new models. A complete multimodal stack: Text, image, transcription, and voice, ready for developers to build with under one set of governance and security controls. #MSBuild [video]
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@swyx
@swyx
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you have to give @MicrosoftAI props for training all these in-house from scratch and getting ALL of them to near-SOTA. Mustafa built a full fledged neolab inside Microsoft in 2 years, that now MS fully controls from chip to model to harness. Absurdly impressive. [image]
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@microsoftai
@microsoftai
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MAI-Code-1-Flash beats Claude Haiku 4.5 on every coding benchmark we tested: 📈 SWE-Bench Verified: 71.6 vs 66.6 📈 SWE-Bench Pro: 51.2 vs 35.2 (+16 pts) 📈 Terminal Bench 2: 54.8 vs 41.6 With up to 60% fewer tokens. Now rolling out in GitHub Copilot. Read More:
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@jeffteper
Jeff Teper
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Awesome model price / performance innovation - will be an incredibly exciting year ahead!
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@microsoftai
@microsoftai
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Seven models. One lab. Zero distillation. Learn more here: https://microsoft.ai/... Try them on Microsoft Foundry. Multimodal models live on @OpenRouter today, Thinking model coming soon to Open Router, @FireworksAI_HQ and @baseten. Hold onto your hats, let's go!
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@nandodf
Nando de Freitas
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Very proud of my team for achieving this important milestone. They are very talented. Within a year, they transformed the AI capabilities of a large corporation.
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@microsoftai
@microsoftai
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Seven new models launching at Build: let's go! Reasoning. Code. Image. Transcribe. Voice. Built from scratch on a clean data lineage, designed for efficiency, working seamlessly as a family of models Thread 🧵 #MSBuild [image]
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@thetranscript_
@thetranscript_
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Trying to figure out which models to use for what: $MSFT [image]
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@altryne
Alex Volkov
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BREAKING: Microsoft (specifically MAI, previously reflection) just announced their new LLM. MAI-Thinking-1 and MAI-Code-1-Flash MAI-Thinking is comparing itself to Sonnet, and showing interesting evals! Not available to try yet sadly. [image]
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@microsoftai
@microsoftai
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MAI-Transcribe-1.5: the only model in the top group of both Accuracy and Speed on Artificial Analysis. 🥇 #1 on FLEURS averaged across 43 languages 🥇 #1 on Artificial Analysis Accuracy x Speed Pareto Frontier 🥉 #3 on Artificial Analysis-WER at 2.4% ⚡ up to 5x faster than [video]
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@eliebakouch
Elie
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WOW microsoft new “MAI Thinking 1” model comes with a 109 page tech report that looks REALLY detailed, this is amazing [image]
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@stepango
Stepan Goncharov
on x
Sadly, no one cares
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@satyanadella
Satya Nadella
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5/With our 7 new MAI models + Frontier Tuning, we are helping every company move from just consuming frontier models to fully participating in the frontier ecosystem. [image]
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@microsoftai
@microsoftai
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Humanist superintelligence. The kind of AI worth building. https://microsoft.ai/... #MSBuild [video]
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@chihyaoma
Kevin Chih-Yao Ma
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Our image editing model is out today! Better than latest Nano banana from Gemini, landing us top 2 worldwide! Another milestone by such a small and incredible team.
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@soldni
Luca Soldaini
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Climbing with no distillation, like the Big Boys do, has been super fun! Read the tech report for a taste of our ̶s̶u̶f̶f̶e̶r̶i̶n̶g̶ journey [image]
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@brijones
Brian Jones
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Great partnership with the MAI team and we're excited to start rolling this out in Excel Copilot: “our MAI tuned model for Excel matches GPT 5.4 while being up to 10× more efficient.”
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@mustafasuleyman
Mustafa Suleyman
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Today's news all comes down to this: we're putting our relentless hill-climbing machine at your service. From launching top tier models to helping you make them your own, our commitment as a platform company is to keep you at the absolute frontier. For all the details:
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@microsoftai
@microsoftai
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MAI-Voice-2 + MAI-Voice-2-Flash. Our most expressive text-to-speech model yet: 🌍 15 languages with emotion control (excited, whispered, embarrassed and more) 🎭 Stable speaker identity across long-form content 🗣️ Code-switching for Hindi-English and Spanish-English ✅ [video]
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@artificialanlys
@artificialanlys
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Microsoft has released MAI-Transcribe-1.5: an exceptionally fast speech transcription model at a speed factor of ~276x, while still achieving 2.4% on AA-WER (#3), leading the accuracy-speed Pareto frontier MAI-Transcribe-1.5 is Microsoft AI (MAI)'s latest speech transcription [im…
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Young Jin Kim
Young Jin Kim
on linkedin
Excited to share what we've been building!! 🚀 🚀 🚀 — Frontier models for reasoning and coding... …
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@phillipcarter.dev
Phillip Carter
on bluesky
Microsoft is going to start pushing out bona fide models now, excited to see where this goes microsoft.ai/news/buildin...
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r/singularity
r
on reddit
Building a hill-climbing machine: Launching seven new MAI models | Microsoft AI
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@reedalbergotti
Reed Albergotti
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Alpha Go is the inspiration for a lot of what @mustafasuleyman is doing at Microsoft AI, he told me. Can everything you do on Microsoft products become “Go” for non-verifiable corporate tasks? [image]
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@mustafasuleyman
Mustafa Suleyman
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Proud that we're collaborating with Mayo Clinic to build a frontier AI model for healthcare. Both our organizations exist to serve people at scale - and we believe this could be nothing short of transformative for global healthcare. https://news.microsoft.com/... [image]