Microsoft Just Shipped Its Own AI Stack. Here's the Real Story
MAI-Code-1-Flash outperforms Haiku 4.5 by 16 points on SWE-Bench Pro. Ships as default in VS Code.
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That's what happened at Build 2026.
But the coverage missed the bigger shift underneath.
Microsoft dropped seven MAI models.
Trained from scratch. No distillation from OpenAI, Anthropic, or
