Launching seven new MAI models: https://microsoft.ai/news/building-a-hillclimbing-machine-la...
Shots fired?
It would be interesting to see how far "clean data" can go on the scaling laws.
P.S. A fairly basic website otherwise, but it unfortunately seems to be hacking scroll for no good reason.
> without distillation from third-party models
sounds like zero unless they are lying.
Isn’t 1M becoming the norm?
Claude code will suggest you to start a new session or compact if you go above 100k.
30k for open source models
From a strategic PoV for MS, all the models you cited are distilling GPT/Claude/Gemini and wouldn't be anywhere as good as they are without this distillation, which in turn means you are dependent on OAI/Anthropic/G first shipping a good model to generate data for your training. This MAI model is trained from scratch with no synthetic data or distillation. So in term of benchmark its obviously much harder to get strong score and thus not a disaster if they can keep on improving.
At least when you define benchmaxxed as "good in benchmarks but not human preference".
This seemingly nonsensical sentence (of course this will have a smaller inference footprint than larger models) suggests this model's competitors have larger inference footprints and total parameter sizes.
For personal stuff this release is not noteworthy.
About time Microsoft joined the fray. After the OpenAI divorce, it really looked like Microsoft was going to become another Uber.
MAI-Code-1-Flash - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48374466 - June 2026 (131 comments)
I was most excited about the "frontier tuning." Like, it will actually watch you do stuff and learn to do it for you? That would be actually interesting.
But no, it's just a data labelling interface: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/copilot/copi.... You have to provide the instruction and give feedback and there is a whole UI with hour-lonf wait between steps. So basically they want you to do the labelling to train a model, or at least that's how it looks from the outside
Also the mission statement of Humanist AI is the most boring, but tries to sound way too grand. Like "all the cool labs have a mission statement, so we should also have one" vibes
