MAI-Thinking-1
MAI-Thinking-1 is an API-only (closed weights) language model from Microsoft, released June 2, 2026. Its makers disclosed about 962B parameters.
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Lab
Microsoft
Released
June 2, 2026
Weights
API-only (closed weights)
Parameters
962B disclosed
Context
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Price / M tokens
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Benchmark results
Epoch AI has not published results for MAI-Thinking-1 yet. New models are usually evaluated within days to weeks.
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