MAI
Model FamilyMicrosoftactive
Microsoft AI's in-house multimodal model family spanning reasoning, coding, image, voice and transcription.
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Models in this family
| Model | Family | Released | Modality | Open source | API | Status |
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| MAI-Image-2.6 Flash | MAI | Sep 4, 2026 | — | — | — | public preview |
| MAI-Transcribe-2 | MAI | Sep 3, 2026 | — | — | — | active |
| MAI-Image-2.6 | MAI | Aug 10, 2026 | — | — | — | public preview |
| MAI-Code-1-Flash | MAI | Jun 2, 2026 | — | — | — | active |
| MAI-Image-2.5 | MAI | Jun 2, 2026 | — | — | — | active |
| MAI-Image-2.5 Flash | MAI | Jun 2, 2026 | — | — | — | active |
| MAI-Thinking-1 | MAI | Jun 2, 2026 | — | — | — | active |
| MAI-Transcribe-1.5 | MAI | Jun 2, 2026 | — | — | — | active |
| MAI-Voice-2 | MAI | Jun 2, 2026 | — | — | — | active |
| MAI-Voice-2 Flash | MAI | Jun 2, 2026 | — | — | — | announced |
| MAI-Image-2 | MAI | Apr 2, 2026 | — | — | — | active |
| MAI-Transcribe-1 | MAI | Apr 2, 2026 | — | — | — | active |
| MAI-Image-1 | MAI | Oct 13, 2025 | — | — | — | active |
| MAI-1 Preview | MAI | Aug 28, 2025 | — | — | — | preview |
| MAI-Voice-1 | MAI | Aug 28, 2025 | — | — | — | active |
Products
| Name | Type | Category | Launched | Latest release | Status |
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| Microsoft Frontier Tuning | Platform | — | Jun 2026 | Microsoft Frontier Tuning introduced | preview |
Releases
Mar 19, 2024Microsoft licenses Inflection AI technology and hires team membersPartnership
Microsoft enters an AI licensing arrangement with Inflection and hires Mustafa Suleyman, Karén Simonyan and members of the Inflection team to build Microsoft AI.
Mar 19, 2024Microsoft forms Microsoft AI organizationLeadership change
Microsoft forms the Microsoft AI organization focused on Copilot and consumer AI, appointing Mustafa Suleyman as EVP and CEO and Karén Simonyan as Chief Scientist.