Microsoft Just Declared AI Independence From OpenAI. Seven Models. No OpenAI Data. A Tenth of the Cost.
Microsoft unveiled seven in-house MAI models at Build — including MAI-Thinking-1, its first reasoning model built entirely without OpenAI distillation, matching Claude Opus 4.6 on coding benchmarks at a tenth of GPT-5.5's cost. Mustafa Suleiman called it "long-term self-sufficiency." We break down what the MAI family actually is, cover Anthropic's Monday IPO filing at a $965 billion valuation, and preview Tim Cook's final WWDC keynote Sunday.
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