Microsoft AI launches seven MAI models and Mayo Clinic partnership

Key points

• Microsoft AI has launched seven new in-house MAI models across reasoning, coding, image generation, voice, and transcription, alongside a healthcare AI collaboration with Mayo Clinic.
• The announcement, made on 2 June 2026, includes MAI-Thinking-1, MAI-Code-1-Flash, MAI-Image-2.5, MAI-Image-2.5 Flash, MAI Transcribe-1.5, MAI-Voice-2, and MAI-Voice-2-Flash.
• Microsoft AI says the models form a multimodal family designed to work across real-world tasks and integrate into products used by individuals, developers, and organizations.
• The launch also introduces Microsoft Frontier Tuning, an approach for adapting models to organization-specific workflows.
• For developers and education providers focused on AI skills, the launch brings new model capabilities into coding, software engineering, voice, transcription, and enterprise workflow training.