Microsoft launches two new Large Language Models: MAI-Thinking-1 and MAI-Code-1-Flash. MAI-Thinking-1 is a 35B parameter reasoning model that reportedly outperforms Claude 3 Sonnet in blind evaluations. MAI-Code-1-Flash is a 5B parameter code generation model designed for GitHub Copilot, aiming for high performance and lower costs. Both models were trained from scratch on Microsoft's own enterprise-grade, commercially licensed data, avoiding distillation from third-party models.
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