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Project Perception: Microsoft's Cheaper Rival to Claude Mythos

Microsoft is reportedly developing Project Perception, a multi-model AI security platform that routes vulnerability-scanning tasks across models from Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic to reserve expensive frontier calls for high-value steps. Its pitch is matching Anthropic's Claude Mythos on capability while costing far less. Microsoft has not officially confirmed details, so the news should be treated as a credible report pending benchmarks.

Jul 21, 2026 · 5 min read
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OpenAI Jalapeño: Custom AI Chip Aims to Beat Nvidia

OpenAI unveiled Jalapeño, its first custom inference chip co-designed with Broadcom on TSMC 3nm. Built in a nine-month design cycle, the reticle-sized ASIC targets roughly 50% lower inference cost than current Nvidia GPUs, with deployment starting late 2026 and Microsoft reportedly taking 40% of the first run for Azure.

Jul 6, 2026 · 4 min read
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MAI-Thinking-1: Microsoft's First In-House Reasoning Model

Microsoft unveiled MAI-Thinking-1 at Build 2026, its first reasoning model trained in-house without distillation. The 35B-active, ~1T-total MoE has a 256k context window, scores 97.0% on AIME 2025 and matches Claude Opus 4.6 on SWE-Bench Pro. It's in private preview on Microsoft Foundry.

Jun 23, 2026 · 5 min read
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MAI-Code-1-Flash: Microsoft's Lean Coding Model Hits Copilot

Microsoft launched MAI-Code-1-Flash on June 2, 2026, a lightweight, agentic coding model built end-to-end in-house and rolling out to GitHub Copilot users in VS Code. It outperforms Claude Haiku 4.5 across four coding benchmarks (including 51.2% vs 35.2% on SWE-Bench Pro) while using up to 60% fewer tokens, signaling Microsoft's push for AI independence from OpenAI.

Jun 6, 2026 · 5 min read
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