[00:02] models it has built from scratch and one of them is already inside of your VS Code Copilot. This is one in-house family of AI models across five different areas: image, voice, transcription, coding, and advanced
[00:16] reasoning. And the one I want to show you is MAI Code 1 Flash, which you can already use from Copilot inside of VS Code. This is a small, fast, agentic coding model that's on par with Haiku. In my testing, it performed pretty well
[00:31] threw at it, and this comes at the fraction of a cost compared to other models. The flagship model is called MAI Thinking 1, and this is an advanced reasoning model, and in blind testing, Microsoft says that most users preferred
[00:45] it compared to Sonic. Across benchmarks, it scores pretty close to Opus 4.6, and model they released, so I expect the newer ones to catch up significantly
[00:58] faster. So, if you want to try this out, go ahead and open your Copilot model picker in VS Code, switch the active model to MAI Code 1 Flash, and give it a run, and let me know in the comments how it performs on your coding tasks. And if
[01:12] you want to learn more about the new family of models coming from Microsoft AI, I'm going to leave a link in the pinned comment right below, so go ahead pinned comment right below, so go ahead and check it out.