MicrosoftReleased on Jun 2, 2026

MAI-Thinking-1: Benchmarks, Pricing & Context Window

MAI-Thinking-1 is a language model from Microsoft, released in June 2026.

MAI-Thinking-1 is Microsoft AI's first in-house reasoning model, a 35B-active / ~1T-total parameter sparse Mixture of Experts model (base model MAI-Base-1) trained from scratch without distillation from third-party models. Built with

MAI-Thinking-1 API

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MAI-Thinking-1 examples

Recent arena outputs from MAI-Thinking-1, picked from the highest-ranked matchups.

MAI-Thinking-1 license

MAI-Thinking-1 is released under the Proprietary license, which restricts commercial use, has 1.0T parameters.

License
Proprietary
Non-commercial
Parameters
1.0T

Proprietary license - usage restrictions apply

FAQ

Common questions about MAI-Thinking-1.

What is the MAI-Thinking-1 release date?

MAI-Thinking-1 was released on June 2, 2026 by Microsoft.

Who created MAI-Thinking-1?

MAI-Thinking-1 was created by Microsoft.

How many parameters does MAI-Thinking-1 have?

MAI-Thinking-1 has 1000.0 billion parameters.

What is the license for MAI-Thinking-1?

MAI-Thinking-1 is released under the Proprietary license.