Microsoft MAI-Code-1-Flash Beats Claude Haiku 4.5 on SWE-Bench
Microsoft launched MAI-Code-1-Flash in GitHub Copilot on June 2, 2026, beating Claude Haiku 4.5 by 16 points on SWE-Bench Pro at lower cost. Full developer guide.
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Microsoft launched MAI-Code-1-Flash in GitHub Copilot on June 2, 2026, beating Claude Haiku 4.5 by 16 points on SWE-Bench Pro at lower cost. Full developer guide.
Microsoft unveiled 7 in-house MAI models at Build 2026: MAI-Thinking-1 (35B active params, no OpenAI data) and MAI-Code-1-Flash now live in GitHub Copilot and VS Code.
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