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.