Microsoft AI (MAI), the company's core Artificial Intelligence (AI) division, announced seven new in-house developed AI models at the company's annual developer conference this year, Build 2026. These models include MAI-Thinking-1, MAI-Code-1-Flash, MAI-Image-2.5, MAI-Image-2.5 Flash, MAI Transcribe-1.5, MAI-Voice-2, and MAI-Voice-2-Flash, designed to handle individual specialised tasks ranging from reasoning, coding, image generation, transcription, and voice generation, respectively.Microsoft mentioned that "Beyond these models, we’re building a superintelligence lab – a system and an approach we believe will define the next phase of AI." The Redmond-based tech giant noted that the processing power required "to train frontier models has increased by a factor of one trillion", which is expected to increase another thousand-fold over the next three years. The company mentions that this will provide advanced capabilities to the AI models and make the technology more effective.MAI-Thinking-1: It is Microsoft AI's flagship reasoning model. A medium-sized model trained from the ground up on clean data — without distillation from third-party models. It matches leading models on key software engineering benchmarks, demonstrates advanced mathematical reasoning, and is said to outperform Claude Sonnet 4.6 in blind human side-by-side evaluations.
