Microsoft debuts MAI-Thinking-1, its first advanced reasoning model, trained "from the ground up on clean data, without distillation from third-party models" (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Jay Peters / The Verge: Microsoft debuts MAI-Thinking-1, its first advanced reasoning model, trained “from the ground up on clean data, without distillation from third-party models” — MAI-Thinking-1 is one of seven new models announced at Build 2026. … Microsoft announced a bunch of new in-house AI models …