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Microsoft’s First Reasoning Model Won’t Drink From Its Competitors

Microsoft’s First Reasoning Model Won’t Drink From Its Competitors

Aug 18, 2026 | Journal

On the second of June 2026, at Build, Microsoft AI announced something it had been threatening for two years: a flagship reasoning model nobody else helped train. MAI-Thinking-1 is a sparse Mixture-of-Experts decoder with 35 billion active parameters and roughly one...

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