# Microsoft AI — Building a hill-climbing machine: Launching seven new MAI models | Microsoft AI

- Company: Microsoft AI (microsoft.ai)
- Announced: 2026-06-02
- Category: new-model
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://microsoft.ai/news/building-a-hillclimbing-machine-launching-seven-new-mai-models/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/10811-building-a-hill-climbing-machine-launching-seven-new-mai-models-microsoft-ai
- Subject: MAI
- Models affected: MAI-Thinking-1, MAI-Code-1-Flash, MAI-Image-2.5, MAI Transcribe-1.5, MAI-Voice-2, MAI-Voice-2-Flash

Microsoft AI announced seven new models spanning image, voice, transcription, coding, and reasoning capabilities. MAI-Thinking-1 is positioned as a flagship reasoning model matching leading models on software engineering benchmarks; MAI-Code-1-Flash is an inference-efficient coding model with 5 billion active parameters integrated into GitHub Copilot; MAI-Image-2.5 supports text-to-image and image editing; MAI Transcribe-1.5 is described as the best transcription model with five times faster performance than competitors across 43 languages; MAI-Voice-2 provides speech generation across 15 languages with voice adaptation capabilities. The models will be available on Foundry, OpenRouter, Fireworks, and Baseten, with developers able to tune model weights. Microsoft also announced a collaboration with Mayo Clinic to co-create a frontier AI model for healthcare.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://microsoft.ai/news/building-a-hillclimbing-machine-launching-seven-new-mai-models/:

> Today we are announcing a family of seven new models developed in-house at Microsoft AI. Our new models across image, voice, transcription, coding, and reasoning, together form the MAI model family: a multimodal ecosystem designed to work across the kinds of tasks that matter in the real world.

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