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What is MAI-Thinking-1?

MAI-Thinking-1 is an advanced reasoning model developed by Microsoft AI, specifically designed to address complex and significant issues, showcasing exceptional reasoning skills and strong software engineering capabilities within its class. With a configuration of 35 billion active parameters and approximately 1 trillion total parameters structured as a sparse Mixture of Experts, this model offers a more efficient inference footprint compared to larger counterparts while delivering performance that rivals top models on crucial software engineering evaluations. Microsoft crafted MAI-Thinking-1 from the ground up, employing high-quality, enterprise-grade, commercially licensed data to ensure its capabilities are acquired rather than sourced from external models. As a key component of Microsoft's innovative Hill-Climbing Machine, the model enjoys a collaborative development approach aimed at continuous and reliable improvements throughout all phases of its creation. MAI-Thinking-1 excels in agentic coding environments, possessing the ability to read and modify code, run tests, identify errors, and recover from mistakes during the process. Its capacity to adapt and learn in real-time enhances its value for developers who prioritize efficiency and reliability in their work. Ultimately, this model redefines the expectations for software engineering tools, blending advanced AI with practical coding applications to drive innovation in the field.

What is GLM-5.3-Flash?

GLM-5.3-Flash is an efficiency-focused multimodal AI model from Z.ai that combines advanced reasoning, coding, agentic execution, and visual intelligence. It is the first GLM-5-series model designed with native multimodal capabilities, allowing it to work directly with both textual and visual inputs. The architecture uses 320 billion total parameters while activating only 18 billion at a time, significantly reducing the amount of computation required for inference. A hybrid attention design blends linear attention for local information with sparse attention for retrieving important context from much larger inputs. Z.ai also uses technologies such as IndexPool and Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections to improve memory efficiency, latency, and model scaling. The model can operate with context windows of up to one million tokens, making it suitable for large repositories, lengthy documents, extended agent sessions, and complex multimodal workflows. GLM-5.3-Flash was trained on a 30-trillion-token multimodal corpus intended to strengthen reasoning across code, images, interfaces, documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and other business artifacts. In software development scenarios, the model can visually inspect rendered applications, evaluate its own output, and iteratively correct layout, functionality, or interaction issues. Z.ai’s reported benchmark results show large improvements over GLM-5.2 in areas such as software engineering and automation, while placing GLM-5.3-Flash close to leading frontier systems on several coding and agentic evaluations. Before its formal release, the model was anonymously tested under the name ox-alpha on OpenCode and OpenRouter, where Z.ai says it became one of the most widely used models during its testing period. GLM-5.3-Flash is available through Z.ai’s API and coding products as well as through downloadable weights on Hugging Face, with deployment support for SGLang, vLLM, and TokenSpeed.

Media

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Integrations Supported

Cheaper Inference
Claude Code
Claude Sonnet 4.6
DeepSeek Harness
GLM Coding Plan
GitHub Copilot
Hermes Agent
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Foundry
OpenClaw
OpenCode Go
OpenCode Zen
OpenRouter
Pi Agent
Visual Studio Code
Z.ai
omp

Integrations Supported

Cheaper Inference
Claude Code
Claude Sonnet 4.6
DeepSeek Harness
GLM Coding Plan
GitHub Copilot
Hermes Agent
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Foundry
OpenClaw
OpenCode Go
OpenCode Zen
OpenRouter
Pi Agent
Visual Studio Code
Z.ai
omp

API Availability

Has API

API Availability

Has API

Pricing Information

Pricing not provided
Free Version
Free Trial Offered?

Pricing Information

$0.15 per 1M tokens (input)
Input: $0.15 per 1M tokens
Output: $0.50 per 1M tokens
Cached input: $0.03 per 1M 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

2024

Company Location

United States

Company Website

microsoft.ai/news/introducing-mai-thinking-1/

Company Facts

Organization Name

Z.ai

Date Founded

2019

Company Location

China

Company Website

z.ai

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