Microsoft releases MAI-Code-1.1-Flash coding model to better compete with Chinese models

Microsoft releases MAI-Code-1.1-Flash coding model to better compete with Chinese models

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Publication Date: 2026-08-12 04:16:00

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Microsoft has officially unveiled MAI-Code-1.1-Flash, an upgraded and highly cost-effective coding model integrated directly into GitHub Copilot.

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Back in June, Microsoft first revealed MAI-Code-1, an inference-efficient coding model tuned for GitHub Copilot workloads. Since then, the Flash variant of MAI-Code-1 has been made available in GitHub Copilot as an alternative to models from OpenAI and…