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On June 18 GitHub made its purpose-built small coding model available across the Copilot app, CLI, Chat, Visual Studio, JetBrains, Eclipse, GitHub Mobile, and Xcode, in Free through Max plans. (GitHub) A fast, cheap first-party model pushed this broadly signals Microsoft routing low-latency subtasks to its own small model instead of always calling frontier APIs. That's the cost-tiered routing pattern NVIDIA's Router blueprint formalizes, showing up as product strategy. Match the model to the subtask, don't pay frontier prices for autocomplete.
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43.3% on Frontier-Bench v0.1. Opus 4.8 scored 18.7%. That's not an incremental bump, that's the same benchmark with a different shape of answer. Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on July 24 at $5/$25 per million input/output tokens, exactly half of Fable 5's $10/$50, while matc...
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...
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...
July 9, across VS Code, Visual Studio, Copilot CLI, the cloud agent, github.com, GitHub Mobile, JetBrains, Xcode, and Eclipse. Sol is the high-reasoning tier at $5/1M in, $30/1M out, gated to Pro+/Max/Business/Enterprise. Terra is the balanced default at $2.50/$15. Luna is fas...
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...
GitHub shipped it July 28 across Pro through Enterprise, reachable from VS Code, Visual Studio, Copilot CLI, the cloud agent, JetBrains, Xcode, and Eclipse, with text and image inputs and low/medium/high reasoning effort, billed at provider list pricing rather than a fixed mul...
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