Microsoft's new MAI models

Microsoft announced two new text-based LLMs (large language models, AI systems trained on text data): MAI-Thinking-1, a 35-billion-parameter model (parameters are the adjustable values that make up a neural network) designed for reasoning tasks, and MAI-Code-1-Flash, a smaller 5-billion-parameter model built specifically for code generation in GitHub Copilot and VS Code. Both models were trained on licensed data rather than web scrapes, and Microsoft claims MAI-Thinking-1 outperforms Claude's Sonnet 4.6 model despite its smaller size.