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What is MAI-1-preview?

The MAI-1 Preview represents the first instance of Microsoft AI's foundation model, which has been meticulously crafted in-house and employs a mixture-of-experts architecture for improved efficiency. This model has been rigorously trained using approximately 15,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs, enabling it to effectively understand user commands and generate pertinent text answers to frequently asked questions, serving as a prototype for the future capabilities of Copilot. Currently available for public evaluation on LMArena, the MAI-1 Preview offers an early insight into the platform’s trajectory, with intentions to roll out specific text-based applications in Copilot in the coming weeks to gather user feedback and refine its functionality. Microsoft underscores its dedication to weaving together its proprietary models, partnerships, and innovations from the open-source community to enhance user experiences through millions of unique interactions daily. By adopting this forward-thinking strategy, Microsoft showcases its commitment to the continuous improvement of its AI solutions and responsiveness to user needs. This proactive approach indicates that Microsoft is not only focused on current technologies but is also actively shaping the future landscape of AI development.

What is Inkling-Small?

Inkling-Small is an efficient multimodal AI model built to deliver strong reasoning and coding performance at a fraction of Inkling’s size. It is a Mixture-of-Experts transformer with 276 billion total parameters and 12 billion active parameters. The model was trained on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 systems and is designed to combine high capability with more efficient inference. Inkling-Small supports native reasoning across text, images, and audio, allowing it to work across multimodal tasks without relying on separate encoders. Its context window supports up to one million tokens, making it useful for long-form reasoning, large-scale code understanding, document analysis, and agentic workflows. Users can adjust reasoning effort from minimal to extra high depending on whether they need faster responses or deeper computation. The model’s training process includes improved pre-training data, post-training with on-policy distillation from Inkling, and extended agentic coding reinforcement learning. These techniques helped Inkling-Small outperform its larger counterpart on reasoning and coding benchmarks. The model performs well in coding and tool-use harnesses and exceeds 80% on SWE-bench Verified. Its encoder-free architecture processes audio as dMel spectrograms and images as 40-by-40-pixel patches alongside text tokens. By combining efficient MoE design, one-million-token context, adjustable reasoning effort, multimodal processing, coding strength, and tool-use performance, Inkling-Small is designed for developers and teams that need capable AI with lower active compute requirements.

Media

Media

Integrations Supported

Microsoft Copilot
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Tinker

Integrations Supported

Microsoft Copilot
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Tinker

API Availability

Has API

API Availability

Has API

Pricing Information

Pricing not provided
Free Version
Free Trial Offered?

Pricing Information

$0.30 per million input tokens
$0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens
Free Version
Free Trial Offered?

Supported Platforms

SaaS
Android
iPhone
iPad
Windows
Mac
On-Prem
Chromebook
Linux

Supported Platforms

SaaS
Android
iPhone
iPad
Windows
Mac
On-Prem
Chromebook
Linux

Customer Service / Support

Standard Support
24 Hour Support
Web-Based Support

Customer Service / Support

Standard Support
24 Hour Support
Web-Based Support

Training Options

Documentation Hub
Webinars
Online Training
On-Site Training

Training Options

Documentation Hub
Webinars
Online Training
On-Site Training

Company Facts

Organization Name

Microsoft AI

Date Founded

1975

Company Location

United States

Company Website

microsoft.ai/news/two-new-in-house-models/

Company Facts

Organization Name

Thinking Machines Lab

Date Founded

2025

Company Location

United States

Company Website

thinkingmachines.ai/news/inkling-small/

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