Jin Daily AI Trivia - Microsoft AI launched 7 new AI models

Jin Daily AI Trivia - Microsoft AI launched 7 new AI models

Microsoft just dropped a bunch of new AI models, but honestly, most of the text and coding models feel very “enterprise checkbox.” The audio models? Different story.

MAI-Thinking-1 - “Don’t think one”

1T-A35B with a 256K context window. Sounds powerful on paper, but the Terminal-Bench result looks pretty bad, which means tool calling and agentic coding are probably not its strength. So unless this is somehow cheaper than DeepSeek V4, which is very unlikely, it feels pretty pointless for general users. Most likely, this is mainly for enterprises that already love the Microsoft stack.

MAI-Code-1-Flash - “Don’t code one”

This is a 5B active-parameter distilled version of a bigger model that Microsoft did not release, probably based on MAI-Thinking-1. But with a Terminal-Bench 2.0 score of only 54.8, it still does not look that competitive. GLM-5.1 and DeepSeek V4 are already above 68. So yeah, another code model that probably should not be your main coding model.

MAI-Image-2.5 / Flash

Microsoft claims better price and performance, but the comparison seems to be against older competitor models. Google Gemini 3.1 Flash Image still beats MAI-Image-2.5 Flash on pricing, so this feels more like a “good enough inside Microsoft ecosystem” model instead of a real market killer.

MAI-Voice-2 / Flash - This is the GOAT

This is the one that actually impressed me. Mixed-language speech in one sentence sounds extremely smooth. Chinese + English, Hindi + English, and other bilingual switching feels very natural. MAI-Voice-2 could kill a lot of paid TTS services out there, especially since it also supports emotion tags.

MAI-Transcribe-1.5

Much language. Much speed. Very wow. 43 languages supported. 1 hour of audio transcribed in around 15 seconds. Microsoft claims it is 5x faster and better than the next SOTA model. This is huge for meeting transcription, podcast processing, call center analytics, and multilingual AI agents.

Don’t need to trust what I say, try it yourself. https://playground.microsoft.ai/chat?model=duo-ai&duo-mode=conversation

Hope you learn something new today!! See ya !!