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MAI-Thinking-1

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LLMsreasoningcloud

Overview

Microsoft AI's first flagship reasoning model, a medium-sized model in the first-party MAI family launched at Build 2026. Distributed via OpenRouter, Fireworks and Baseten.

Capabilities and innovations

Extended reasoningAgentic codingMathematical reasoningTool useFirst-party Microsoft reasoning flagshipMAI model family (Build 2026)

Benchmarks

BenchmarkScoreSource
GPQA Diamond84.2%third party
GPQA-Diamond 84.2 (aggregator; corroborated by llmreference). Not reported with a number in Microsoft's launch blog; independent vals.ai evaluation pending.
SWE-bench Pro52.8%third party
SWE-bench Pro 52.8 (aggregator); Microsoft reported ~53% at Build 2026, on par with Claude Opus 4.6. Not yet on vals.ai for independent confirmation.
  • Humanity’s Last Exam (no tools): independent evaluation pending
  • MMLU-Pro: independent evaluation pending
  • Terminal-Bench 2.x: independent evaluation pending
  • MMMU-Pro: independent evaluation pending

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