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)

<a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/941664/microsoft-ai-model-reasoning-mai-thinking-1-build-2026"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260602/i52.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260602/p52#a260602p52" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Jay Peters / <a href="https://www.theverge.com/">The Verge</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/941664/microsoft-ai-model-reasoning-mai-thinking-1-build-2026">Microsoft debuts MAI-Thinking-1, its first advanced reasoning model, trained &ldquo;from the ground up on clean data, without distillation from third-party models&rdquo;</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; MAI-Thinking-1 is one of seven new models announced at Build 2026. &hellip; Microsoft announced a bunch of new in-house AI models &hellip; </p>