Microsoft AI Weekly: MAI Goes Production, Phi-4 Holds the Edge, Florence-2 Hits a Deadline
August 2026 marks an inflection point for Microsoft’s first-party AI strategy. The MAI model family — trained entirely in-house on …
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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: 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) …