Microsoft AI Weekly: Microsoft Builds the AI Stack
Microsoft’s AI strategy became more vertically integrated in the week ending October 12, 2026. Not because of one product launch, but because …
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Microsoft AI Weekly: Decision Models Take Shape
Microsoft’s first-party model strategy is becoming easier to read. Reporting on Microsoft-Decision-1 points to a model designed for fast, structured …
Microsoft AI Weekly: Speech Models Go Streaming
Microsoft’s first-party model portfolio moved further into real-time speech during the week ending September 28, 2026. Microsoft announced a streaming …
Microsoft AI Weekly: Humanist AI Code of Conduct Draft Released
Microsoft AI’s release of the draft Humanist AI Code of Conduct on September 14 has sparked significant discussions around the development and …
Microsoft AI Weekly: MAI-Transcribe-2 and the First-Party Flywheel
Microsoft’s first-party AI model flywheel is now self-reinforcing. This week’s evidence: MAI-Transcribe-2 claims the top spot on FLEURS …
Microsoft AI Weekly: MAI-Code-1-Flash Takes Over Copilot
Microsoft’s first-party AI model strategy has reached the point where the pieces are not just shipping — they are displacing third-party models …
Microsoft AI Weekly: MAI-Thinking-1 Opens Public Preview
Microsoft’s first-party AI stack just crossed a threshold: every layer is now either in production or public preview. The MAI family — trained …
Microsoft AI Weekly: MAI Goes Production, Phi-4 Leads Edge
August 2026 marks an inflection point for Microsoft’s first-party AI strategy. The MAI model family — trained entirely in-house on …
Microsoft AI Weekly: MAI-Code-1.1-Flash Cuts Costs 75%, MAI-Image-2.6 Hits No. 2
Two launches in two days. MAI-Code-1.1-Flash shipped August 11 with a 75% cost cut over its predecessor and new image input support. MAI-Image-2.6 …
Microsoft AI Weekly: Copilot Goes All-In on First-Party Models
August 2026 marks an inflection point for Microsoft’s first-party AI strategy. The company is no longer just building models — it’s …
Microsoft AI Weekly: The MAI Era Begins — Production Traffic Now on First-Party Models
Mid-2026 was the inflection point. August 2026 is when it becomes operational reality. Bloomberg confirmed that Microsoft is actively routing tens of …
Microsoft AI Weekly: The First-Party Model Stack Reaches Critical Mass
Mid-2026 marks a turning point for Microsoft’s AI strategy. The company has assembled a complete first-party model stack — from custom silicon …
Microsoft AI Weekly: The Full Stack Matures — From Aion on Device to MAI in the Cloud
Last week we covered the Bloomberg confirmation that Microsoft is routing production Office workloads to its own MAI models. This week, the picture is …
Microsoft AI Weekly: The Great Migration — Microsoft Flips Office AI to First-Party Models
The past two weeks marked a genuine inflection point for Microsoft’s AI strategy. Not because of a product launch — though there were several — …
Microsoft AI Weekly: Inside Microsoft's First-Party Model Ecosystem
For technology executives and engineering leaders, navigating the rapidly expanding landscape of generative AI requires distinguishing between noise …
Microsoft AI Weekly: Inside Microsoft's Proprietary Model Ecosystem
As enterprise AI strategies mature in 2026, engineering leaders are increasingly looking beyond massive third-party large language models (LLMs) …
Microsoft AI Weekly: Build 2026 Reshapes the Model Landscape
Microsoft’s Build 2026 was a watershed moment — not for flashy demos, but for what it revealed about the company’s model strategy. Seven …
Microsoft AI Weekly: Build 2026 Ushers in the Post-OpenAI Era for Microsoft's First-Party Models
If Build 2025 signaled Microsoft’s intention to build its own AI models, Build 2026 was the year it delivered. On June 2, Microsoft unveiled …
China AI Weekly: DeepSeek V4 Goes Mainstream, US Closes Chip Loophole, and ERNIE 5.1 Rewrites the Efficiency Playbook
The week of June 8–13 saw the Chinese AI ecosystem solidify around several emerging themes: parameter efficiency as a competitive weapon, the agent …