MAI-Code-1-Flash (Reasoning)

by Microsoft

MAI-Code-1-Flash (Reasoning) is a reasoning model from Microsoft, released on June 2, 2026. It ranks #86 of 220 models by Intelligence Score with a score of 29.

MAI-Code-1-Flash is a Microsoft AI coding model built for fast, efficient assistance in everyday developer workflows, built end-to-end by Microsoft on clean and appropriately licensed data. It is trained directly with the GitHub Copilot harnesses used in production for agentic coding in real developer environments, and uses adaptive solution length control to stay concise on simple requests while spending more reasoning budget on complex tasks. It outperforms Claude Haiku 4.5 across coding benchmarks while using up to 60% fewer tokens, and is rolling out to GitHub Copilot individual users in Visual Studio Code via the model picker and the default Auto picker.

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