Microsoft unveils new AI models lessen reliance on OpenAI, lower costs
Microsoft unveils new AI models lessen reliance on OpenAI, lower costs
Publish Date: 2026-06-02 14:34:00
Source Domain: www.cnbc.com
- Microsoft announced its first AI coding model, MAI-Code-1-Flash, capable of generating source code from written descriptions.
- Microsoft introduced MAI-Thinking-1, a reasoning model emphasizing efficiency and low-token cost for developers.
- The company aims to compete with proprietary models by offering its own, benefiting from running models on its Azure cloud infrastructure.
- Microsoft’s efforts reflect a broader strategy to participate more fully in the frontier AI ecosystem, going beyond just consuming established models.
- MAI-Thinking-1 is available in private preview, allowing custom data to enhance its accuracy before a wider release.
- The coding model MAI-Code-1-Flash is efficient and integrates with GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio Code.
- Microsoft is also unveiling updated cloud-based models for speech recognition, synthetic voice generation, and image generation, as well as small AI models for Windows PCs.
