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Microsoft ships its own coding model into GitHub Copilot: what MAI-Code-1-Flash means for builders

Read this because If you live in GitHub Copilot, the default model under your cursor may have quietly changed this week. Here is what actually shipped and how to tell.

Microsoft put a 5B in-house coding model into VS Code at Build 2026 and shipped a 35B reasoning model — both trained without OpenAI distillation.

08 JUN 5 MIN READ Practitioner note microsoft github-copilot coding-models llm

DeepSeek V4, Kimi K2.6, GLM-5.1, MiniMax M2.7: frontier-tier coding at 5–25× lower cost

Four Chinese labs shipped frontier coding models in 12 days. GLM-5.1 MIT license ties Kimi K2.6 on SWE-Bench Pro at 58.4%. Cost gap is 5–25× vs Western APIs.

07 MAY 2 MIN READ Practitioner note open-weights deepseek llm coding-models