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Enterprise-targeted, alongside MAI-Image-2.5, MAI-Voice-2, and MAI-Transcribe-1.5, GA pricing when they ship in Foundry (Business Standard). "No distillation" is the line they want you to remember, because it's the line that says we don't need OpenAI anymore.
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Microsoft open-sourced Foundry-Local, and I think it's the most underrated release of the week. One SDK for chat and audio with automatic hardware acceleration (NPU > GPU > CPU), self-contained with no external dependencies, and the API surface is identical to Azure AI Foundry...
MAI-Code-1-Flash, a 5B-parameter coding model, is in GitHub Copilot and VS Code, and Microsoft says it beats Claude Haiku 4.5 across core coding benchmarks, +16 points on SWE-Bench Pro at 51.2% versus 35.2%, using up to 60% fewer tokens. MAI-Thinking-1, a 35B-active MoE with a...
Expressive TTS with voice cloning across 15 languages (Product Hunt), alongside MAI-Code-1-Flash. Microsoft is methodically building out an in-house model stack across code, voice, and image to depend on OpenAI less across every modality, not just one. The "rent the model" era...
Foundry now offers unified Azure billing and auth across that catalog, even as Microsoft pushes its own MAI models to cut OpenAI dependence. For builders, the real signal is normalization of multi-model enterprise deployment under one control plane. You no longer pick a model...
Bloomberg reported this morning that Microsoft has begun swapping OpenAI and Anthropic models for its own MAI models inside Excel and Outlook, with tens of thousands of prompts a week now running on MAI. Source. Read that number carefully. Tens of thousands of prompts a week i...
Check your GitHub Copilot settings right now. As of April 24, GitHub's updated privacy policy flipped the default for all Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users: your interaction data, including prompts, suggestions, and code snippets from your context, now trains AI models unless...
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