00:00Microsoft just came and announced that they won't rely on OpenAI anymore.
00:03They released not one, not two, but seven new models.
00:07Not only that, in Microsoft Build 2026, they also announced their new chip.
00:12And we will be covering all these in this video, so stay tuned.
00:15Firstly, let us talk about the models.
00:18Microsoft unveiled seven brand new AI models, all built by their own team, from scratch.
00:23No help from OpenAI, no borrowing from anyone else, fully in-house.
00:28It matters because for years, Microsoft's AI was basically just a wrapper around ChatGPT.
00:33They were the delivery truck, not the factory.
00:36And now they're building the factory.
00:37Here's a quick look on the seven models.
00:39First, we have MAiThinking 1, which is their smartest reasoning model,
00:44and is built for hard problems that need real, step-by-step reasoning.
00:48According to Microsoft, they trained it from scratch with clean and commercially licensed data
00:53without distillation from third parties.
00:55This matters as it not only reduces the legal risk that comes with model training,
01:00but also makes the model independent.
01:02Microsoft has also shown in the benchmark that MAiThinking 1 was preferred over Claude Sonnet 4.6.
01:08They also claim that it matched Claude Opus 4.6 in various coding benchmarks,
01:13including SWE BenchPro.
01:16They have also released a Flash version of the model for speed and efficiency.
01:19Next, we have MAi Code 1 Flash, a model specifically designed for coding.
01:25It's already rolling out inside GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio Code this month,
01:29so if you're a developer, you'll feel this one soon.
01:32With this, Microsoft is not releasing a model into some isolated lab environment anymore.
01:37They are putting it directly in the places where work happens.
01:40Then we have MAi Image 2.5, along with its Flash version that support text-to-image and image-to
01:47-image generation.
01:48This is direct competition to OpenAI's image models.
01:51It's being added to PowerPoint right now, so you'll be able to generate visuals directly in your presentations.
01:57After that, there is MAi Transcribe 1.5, which supports high-accuracy transcription across 43 languages with steaming coming soon.
02:06Microsoft says it's five times faster than what's out there today, which looks great for meeting notes, captions, and anything
02:13like that.
02:14Along with this, Microsoft also introduced MAi Voice 2 with its Flash variant,
02:20which is a voice model that makes AI sound like a real person talking.
02:23This works in over 15 languages and can adapt to a specific voice from just a short audio clip.
02:29With these, it looks very clear that Microsoft is creating the wide AI integration layer for office work, software development,
02:36creative work, reasoning, and many other fields.
02:39Speaking of integrations, the company has also released Microsoft IQ,
02:43which is meant to be the unified intelligence layer that makes co-pilot and agents more aware of the actual
02:48organization they are working inside.
02:50So Microsoft is connecting their entire AI stack together so that the agents and workflows run smoothly without losing context
02:58of what's going in the organization.
03:00Google is also doing the same thing with the Gemini integration in all of their products.
03:04Microsoft has also announced Microsoft Scout, the company's first Autopilot agent, which is built on OpenClaw and works 24-7
03:12for you.
03:12This new category in the Microsoft AI stack is a direct rival of Google's alternative personal agent, which is Gemini
03:19Spark.
03:20Like Gemini Spark, Microsoft Scout also enables agents that work on the background, work autonomously, have their own identity,
03:27and act on your behalf under the policies you or your organization have set.
03:31The own identity part is very important as Scout does not operate as some anonymous shared service account.
03:37Here, every agent works under its own governed identity, meaning its actions can be traced back to a known actor
03:44in the company directory.
03:45Scout has been integrated inside Microsoft 365 apps and, with your permission, can connect to various resources, including browser and
03:53local desktop resources.
03:55It also improves over time with WorkIQ.
03:57The idea is that Scout will be the daily handler of your monotonous routine tasks in the company so that
04:03you can focus on what matters.
04:04For developers, Microsoft has also introduced codename Emdash, which is humorously named from AI models' tendency of using Emdashes.
04:13The product is a multi-model agentic security system that deploys more than 100 agents to search for exploitable bugs
04:20in code.
04:20So Microsoft is not just using agents for Officeworks, they are also using it for software security,
04:26and this makes the product a direct competition of Anthropic's Claude Mythos, the notorious cybersecurity model.
04:32We have made a video on it, feel free to watch it after this video, link will be in the
04:36description.
04:37Coming to the last one, they also announced their new quantum computing chip, which is Majorana 2.
04:42And we know that quantum computing sounds intimidating, so let's break it down simply.
04:47Basically, quantum computers are ultra-fast supercomputers that can perform a normal supercomputer work thousand times faster.
04:54They can do that because they use qubits, which can simultaneously work with one and zero unlike normal bits, which
05:01works one at a time.
05:02The problem is that qubits have always been fragile.
05:05They fall apart in seconds, which is why quantum computers are still mostly stuck in labs.
05:10But with Majorana 2, Microsoft made qubits thousand times more stable than their previous chip.
05:15They now last an average of 20 seconds, some even a full minute, which is a massive leap.
05:20Their goal is to make a commercially usable quantum computer by 2029.
05:25And that's how Microsoft shocked the entire world in their Build 2026.
05:29They are not just wrapping themselves around OpenAI anymore and are building their own AI stack for their ecosystem like
05:36Google.
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