Microsoft’s first advanced reasoning AI is here

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Summary

Microsoft has announced MAI-Thinking-1, its first advanced reasoning AI, as part of seven new models unveiled at Build 2026. The AI is trained from the ground up on enterprise-grade data and is preferred to Sonnet 4.6 in blind human side-by-side evaluations.

Why it matters

This marks a significant step in Microsoft's AI development, potentially impacting various industries and applications.

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