During the Build 2026 conference, Microsoft announced a comprehensive suite of AI models known as the MAI family, which focuses on various applications including reasoning, coding, image generation, speech synthesis, and transcription. Among the notable introductions are: • MAI-Thinking-1, a reasoning model that Microsoft claims competes with leading coding models and achieves comparable results to Claude Sonnet 4.6 in blind tests. • MAI-Code-1-Flash, a streamlined coding model with 5 billion parameters designed for integration with GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio Code. • MAI-Image-2.5, an image generation and editing model that goes head-to-head with Nano Banana Pro. • MAI-Voice-2 and MAI-Transcribe-1.5, speech models capable of supporting up to 43 different languages.
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