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

- 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/8427-building-a-hill-climbing-machine-launching-seven-new-mai-models
- 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 a family of seven new models: MAI-Thinking-1, MAI-Code-1-Flash, MAI-Image-2.5, MAI-Transcribe-1.5, MAI-Voice-2, and MAI-Voice-2-Flash. These models span reasoning, coding, image, transcription, and voice capabilities. The company also introduced Frontier Tuning for model adaptation and 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.

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