Microsoft has released MAI Code 1.1 Flash, a code model for GitHub Copilot that's said to be 25 percent more token-efficient at a quarter of the cost of its predecessor. In benchmarks, though, it gets crushed by the cheaper Deepseek V4 Flash. The move fits a pattern: Microsoft talks up open AI, then bakes worse proprietary models into its apps to protect margins.<br /> The article Microsoft's new MAI Code 1.1 Flash gets crushed by Deepseek on both price and performance appeared first on The Decoder. [...]
Microsoft AI released two new in-house models into public preview on Wednesday — MAI-Image-2.5-Pro, its highest-fidelity image generator to date, and MAI-Voice-2-Flash, a speech model built for high [...]
Microsoft today launched MAI-Image-2-Efficient, a lower-cost, higher-speed variant of its flagship text-to-image model that the company says delivers production-ready quality at nearly half the price. [...]
For three years, Microsoft's artificial intelligence story has been inseparable from OpenAI. The partnership — cemented by a cumulative investment exceeding $13 billion — gave Microsoft early [...]
DeepSeek is expanding beyond the model layer and deeper into the software developers use to put AI agents to work.The Chinese AI lab on Thursday launched the official version of DeepSeek-V4-Pro, an up [...]
The whale has resurfaced. DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup offshoot of High-Flyer Capital Management quantitative analysis firm, became a near-overnight sensation globally in January 2025 with the rel [...]
Microsoft on Wednesday launched three new foundational AI models it built entirely in-house — a state-of-the-art speech transcription system, a voice generation engine, and an upgraded image creator [...]
Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek released two powerful new AI models on Sunday that the company claims match or exceed the capabilities of OpenAI's GPT-5 and Google's Gemini- [...]
DeepSeek’s announcement over the weekend that it has made its 75% price cut permanent on its flagship V4 Pro model is a disruptive assault on the capital-heavy business models of Silicon Valley’s [...]
Google DeepMind today released three new proprietary AI models it says are among its most token-efficient yet: Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber. The models aim to ma [...]