MAI-Thinking-1 | Microsoft AI
Built for the complex problems that matter most, with competitive reasoning and top SWE-Bench Pro results at a mid-weight price. Helps your engineering team write better code faster, with a lightweight, agentic model built into GitHub Copilot and VS Code. Create stunning, design-ready images from any text or photo prompt, with best-in-class Arena ELO scores at a lower price. Turn noisy audio into precise, domain-specific transcripts, with leading FLEURS and Artificial Analysis accuracy scores. The latest breakthroughs and updates from within our team MAI-Thinking-1 (35B active, ~1T total parameters, MoE) has a smaller inference footprint than much larger models, yet is competitive with Claude Opus 4.6 on SWE-Bench Pro—coding power that you can run every day. MAI-Thinking-1 (35B active, ~1T total parameters, MoE) has a smaller inference footprint than much larger models, yet is competitive with Claude Opus 4.6 on SWE-Bench Pro—coding power that you can run every day. Independent human r
Introducing Microsoft AI’s first reasoning model. Built from scratch for serious math, coding, and real-world enterprise deployment, MAI-Thinking-1 is a medium-sized model that stands among the strongest in its class. Strong software engineering performance MAI-Thinking-1 (35B active, ~1T total parameters, MoE) has a smaller inference footprint than much larger models, yet is competitive with models in its weight class. A model users genuinely enjoy Independent human raters on Surge prefer MAI-Thinking-1 for overall quality in blind side-by-sides to Sonnet 4.6 across single and…
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