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Microsoft is now both the biggest partner and a rival building its own models. Our coverage of that awkward dance.

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    Microsoft did something quietly significant: it dropped its own MAI-Code-1-Flash model into GitHub Copilot, the coding assistant a lot of us use every day. This is a review of how it actually feels to code with, not how it looks in a keynote, because those are very different things.

  • Microsoft built its own AI models. What that means for the OpenAI marriage.

    For years the deal was simple: Microsoft paid, OpenAI built, and Copilot ran on someone else models. At Build 2026, Microsoft quietly changed the arrangement by shipping seven models of its own. The most important AI news of the month was not a benchmark. It was a message.

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