# Microsoft AI — Hill-climbing MAI models for GitHub Copilot and Excel

- Company: Microsoft AI (microsoft.ai)
- Announced: 2026-07-23
- Category: model-update
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://microsoft.ai/news/hill-climbing-mai-models-for-github-copilot-and-excel
- Record: https://forck.live/items/8419-hill-climbing-mai-models-for-github-copilot-and-excel
- Subject: MAI
- Models affected: MAI-Code-1-Flash

Microsoft announced MAI models specialized for agentic workloads in GitHub Copilot and Excel. The MAI-Code-1-Flash model in GitHub Copilot outperforms similarly sized models with higher code accept rate and lower token usage. The MAI model in Excel is on par with GPT-5.6 for common tasks while being more cost-efficient, and Microsoft is extending this hill-climbing approach to other products.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://microsoft.ai/news/hill-climbing-mai-models-for-github-copilot-and-excel:

> Today we are excited to share two examples inside Microsoft: MAI models specialized for agentic workloads in GitHub Copilot and Excel.

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