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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 and marry it. You route per task under shared auth.
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TechCrunch reports Microsoft coaching its sales force to position in-house MAI models as more efficient and cost-effective. This is the Microsoft-OpenAI divorce escalating from press leaks into sales-floor enablement material, which is the point where a partnership rift starts...
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 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...
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...
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.
Microsoft's "hill-climbing machine" lineup is now reachable via OpenRouter, Fireworks, and Baseten, and it's distinct from the earlier MAI coding models that went into Copilot. The pattern is task-specialized models that are cheap to run, and Microsoft's continued push to depe...
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