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THE HUMANIST REVIEW OF AI

MAI-Thinking-1

Introducing Microsoft AI’s first reasoning model. Built from scratch for serious math, coding, and real-world enterprise deployment, MAI-Thinking-1 is a medium-sized model that stands among the strongest in its class.
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Strong software engineering performance

MAI-Thinking-1 (35B active, ~1T total parameters, MoE) has a smaller inference footprint than much larger models, yet is competitive with models in its weight class.
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A model users genuinely enjoy

Independent human raters on Surge prefer MAI-Thinking-1 for overall quality in blind side-by-sides to Sonnet 4.6 across single and multi-turn tasks.

MAI-Thinking-1 stands among the strongest in its weight class, matching leading models on key software engineering benchmarks and advanced math.

Enterprise-ready from day one

Provides clean, traceable and enterprise-grade data, and uses Microsoft Foundry’s integrated evaluation, observability, safety and deployment capabilities. Making it a perfect fit for Enterprise use cases needing quality, provenance, control, and cost efficiency.

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Microsoft Foundry

Build with MAI-Thinking-1 in public preview.
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MAI Playground

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