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MAI models

The family of in-house AI models developed by Microsoft AI.

Known aliases

  • MAI Model
  • MAI model family
  • MAI Models

Current stories

investOne report1 publisher

Microsoft ties Copilot's 30% and 50% discounts to seat counts of 1,000 and 10,000

Microsoft's Copilot app costs about $30 a seat a month, with 30% off above 1,000 seats and 50% off above 10,000, CryptoBriefing reported. If tiers cover whole orders, a buyer just under 10,000 seats may pay less by ordering past the line.

Reality

Evidence38
Adoption7
Hype gap+20
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence42
securityConfirmed2 publishers

Microsoft's draft AI code of conduct blocks offensive cyberattack help outright, reserves review channel for defensive security work

Microsoft's draft Humanist AI Code of Conduct blocks its MAI models from producing working exploit code, attack tooling and evasion techniques, and the firms deploying those models cannot switch the block off. Comment closes in six weeks.

Reality

Evidence60
Adoption5
Hype gap+20
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence65
buildConfirmed4 publishers

Microsoft's MAI code outranks every operator rule an enterprise writes

Microsoft published the draft on Monday after five to six months of work. It applies only to the company's own MAI models, and no model is trained on it until the six-week public consultation closes.

Perspective Coverage

4 publishers
Builder
Builder 31%
Operator
Operator 33%
Investor
Investor 36%

Reality

Evidence72
Adoption12
Hype gap+32
Incentives74
Confidence66
productOne report1 publisher

Microsoft scopes its Humanist AI conduct code to the models it builds itself

Vendor safety pledges land on whoever has to answer for a model in a risk review. Microsoft's draft code hands that person a scope problem, because its commitments are written for Microsoft's own MAI models.

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption12
Hype gap+40
Incentives72
Confidence55
leadershipConfirmed3 publishers

Microsoft opens a six-week comment window on the conduct rules its MAI models must obey

The draft code of conduct Microsoft AI published on September 14 is not training anything yet, and a revised version lands toward the end of the year to guide model development from 2027, so the text is still open to argument.

Publishers:businessinsider.com microsoft.ai theguardian.com

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 27%
Operator
Operator 33%
Investor
Investor 40%

Reality

Evidence82
Adoption10
Hype gap+32
Incentives76
Confidence78
investOne report1 publisher

Anthropic's $2 trillion listing would price it at 31 times the revenue it reported in July

People cited by Axios say the Nasdaq debut is still set for 2026 near $2 trillion. The same account puts Anthropic's July revenue at $65 billion, with 6,000 disclosed customers supplying at least $600 million of it.

Reality

Evidence20
Adoption35
Hype gap+55
Incentives72
Confidence22
productOne report1 publisher

Microsoft's conduct code puts its MAI models on different rules from the Claude it resells

Microsoft's new code of conduct binds only the MAI models it builds in house, and it rejects the model welfare research at Anthropic, where Microsoft has $5bn invested and whose Claude models it sells inside Copilot.

Publishers:thenextweb.com

Reality

Evidence64
Adoption15
Hype gap+30
Incentives80
Confidence58
investOne report1 publisher

Nadella endorses embedded evaluators a day before Microsoft publishes its MAI code of conduct

Satya Nadella has added Microsoft to the executives backing Dario Amodei's call for deliberate pacing and embedded third-party evaluators. Only one part of that plan is a single company's to deliver.

Publishers:livemint.com

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption10
Hype gap+40
Incentives70
Confidence45