Microsoft (MAI)

Microsoft's in-house model family, built by its AI Superintelligence Team under Mustafa Suleyman. Seven MAI models shipped at Build 2026 covering reasoning, coding, image, voice and transcription, all trained from scratch on licensed data with no distillation from other labs.

Ecosystem functionThe hyperscaler building its way out of dependence on its own biggest investment — MAI exists so Azure and Copilot need not run on OpenAI forever.

Business modelmodels embedded in Microsoft products