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Models2026-07-30 · source-backed
On the July 29 earnings call Microsoft positioned its homegrown MAI family as the cheap alternative to its own partners, introducing "MAI thinking one" as its first reasoning model and claiming MAI Cyber One Flash, paired with a multi-agent security harness, "achieves better performance than the much larger Mythos model, but at half the cost." Nadella also cited Maya 200 silicon at 40% better performance per watt on MAI models and over 11,000 models served through Azure. Note the framing: the win is attributed to the model paired with a harness, which is the same claim story 1 makes, just used as a sales line.
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