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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 is ending for the platform owners.
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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...
Microsoft unveiled MAI-Code-1-Flash at Build, its first model that turns written descriptions into source code for apps and websites, explicitly aimed at lowering developer costs and cutting its dependence on OpenAI (CNBC). Same week, Google pushed Gemini 3.5 Flash to general...
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.
The update adds native image input and faster token streaming alongside gains in instruction following and tool use. It arrives with Polaris becoming the default model on every Copilot seat and Visual Studio 18.9 exposing low/medium/high thinking-effort controls. RuntimeWire M...
The August 10 weekly release rolls Moonshot's 2.8T-parameter, 896-expert open-weight model out across all tiers, and Microsoft's own MAI-Code-1.1-Flash started rolling out with native image understanding (GitHub Changelog). Copilot is now the fastest legitimate route to K3 for...
On Latent Space July 28, OpenAI core product engineering lead Akshay Nathan said Codex and ChatGPT Work combined reached 10 million users within two weeks of the July 9 launch, with monthly actives up more than 10x since January 2026. The number that should reframe your produc...
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