Microsoft AI

Timeline

1. Jun 2, 2026Microsoft AI

   Model

   ★ Landmark

   MAI-Thinking-1 & MAI-Code-1-Flash

   Microsoft's first in-house reasoning and coding models, building a frontier stack independent of OpenAI.

2. Apr 2, 2026Microsoft AI

   Product

   MAI-Transcribe-1, Voice-1, Image-2

   Three production proprietary models for speech, voice, and image — all without OpenAI technology.

3. Nov 6, 2025Microsoft AI

   Research

   MAI Superintelligence Team

   A dedicated unit under Mustafa Suleyman targeting superhuman AI in domains like medical diagnosis.

4. Aug 28, 2025Microsoft AI

   Model

   MAI-Voice-1 & MAI-1-preview

   Microsoft's first in-house foundation models, a step toward reducing OpenAI dependence.

5. May 1, 2025Microsoft AI

   Model

   Phi-4 reasoning

   Small reasoning models beating DeepSeek-R1 and o1-mini on AIME math despite far fewer parameters.

6. Feb 26, 2025Microsoft AI

   Model

   Phi-4 multimodal & mini

   Tiny models processing speech, vision, and text, outperforming Gemini 2.0 Flash at their size.

7. Jan 8, 2025Microsoft AI

   Open weights

   Phi-4 open-sourced

   Released the 14B small reasoning model's weights under an MIT license for free commercial use.