Model
MAI-Thinking-1.
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by Microsoft · released preview in 2026
In plain English
Microsoft's own reasoning model, available through Foundry.
Good for
Trying out multi-step maths, coding and business work inside Microsoft's controls.
Things to be aware of
It's still in preview. Don't use it for important work until the support and the risk of it changing are acceptable.
What Microsoft says
“Microsoft describes it as a reasoning model for workloads that depend on multi-step reasoning.”
- Context window
- 256.0K tokens
- Run it yourself
- No, online only, in preview