Simon Willison Dissects Microsoft's New MAI Models — A Practitioner's Read on Microsoft Going Frontier-Independent

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Willison published a same-week analysis of Microsoft's MAI launch, giving the developer-eye view of what shipping seven first-party models means for the Azure/Copilot stack and Microsoft's OpenAI dependence. His take matters because he consistently cuts through launch marketing to what builders can actually use and what the strategic shift signals.