A five-part series
Five Days of Microsoft AI Models
Five days. A developer's look at the MAI models: what to use, where to use it, and where the limits are.
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Day 1
Why Microsoft Builds Its Own
An introduction to Microsoft's MAI models and the places you can use them, why Microsoft builds its own models, and what developers can expect from this five-day series.
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Day 2
Thinking and Coding
A developer's look at MAI-Thinking-1 and MAI-Code-1.1-Flash: reasoning, mixture of experts, everyday coding, and building for model changes.
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Day 3
Listen, Speak, See
Exploring Microsoft's transcription, voice, and image models as specialized building blocks, with practical use cases and preview limitations.
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Day 4
The Models Come to Your Tools
Where you can use Microsoft's MAI models: Foundry, GitHub Copilot, gateways like Vercel and OpenRouter, and hybrid intelligence on Windows.
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Day 5
Putting It Together
A multilingual voice-agent design combining MAI and local models, plus four practical questions for choosing the right model for each role.