MAI-Thinking-1
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A to Z
- A · App
- No
- B · Built By
- Microsoft
- C · CEO & Politics
- Satya Nadella — Centrist / moderate
- D · Date
- 2026
- E · Expertise
- Intermediate+
- F · Free Tier
- No free tier
- G · Generates
- Text only
- H · Deployment
- Cloud (Microsoft Foundry + OpenRouter + Fireworks + Baseten; customer weight-tuning via Microsoft Frontier Tuning)
- I · Inputs
- Text
- J · Jurisdiction
- USA
- K · Key Staffers
- Mustafa Suleyman (CEO Microsoft AI), Kevin Scott (CTO)
- L · Languages
- English-primary
- M · Model Type
- Reasoning LLM
- N · Safety Issues
- None reported
- O · Open Source
- Proprietary
- P · Pricing
- Microsoft Foundry API: $2/M input, $8/M output ($0.20/M cached input)
- Q · AIDb Rating
- 7/10 · AIDb v2.0 (curated): Capability 8/10 · Currency 10/10 · Access 2/10 · Significance 7/10 → 7.35
- R · What Makes It Special
- Microsoft AI's flagship reasoning model from the seven-model Build 2026 launch: 1T total / 35B active MoE trained from scratch on 33T tokens without distillation; matches leading models on key software-engineering benchmarks; preferred to Sonnet 4.6 in blind human side-by-sides. Marks Microsoft becoming a frontier lab in its own right rather than only an OpenAI channel.
- S · Stock / Status
- $516 (MSFT, Sep 25, 2026)
- T · Training Cutoff
- [UNKNOWN]
- U · Users
- [UNKNOWN]
- V · Voice Chat
- No
- W · Weights
- API only
- X · X Handle
- @Microsoft
- Y · Year Founded
- [UNKNOWN]
- Z · Bottom Line
- Proprietary Reasoning LLM from Microsoft, released 2026.
Data completeness 88% · Last verified 2026-08-09 · Primary source ↗
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“MAI-Thinking-1.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-08-09. https://theaidatabase.com/m/microsoft-mai-thinking-1.html
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