On the internet you must have seen many people saying that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) is immoral because it is trained using data stolen from intellectual property holders without compensation. This is the reason why several AI companies have been sued for compensation reaching hundreds of millions.
This morning Microsoft announced their 7 latest AI models that are developed entirely using licensed data. All of these MAI models have special capabilities such as reasoning, generating images, generating audio and doing programming.
MAI-Thinking-1 is the most powerful model with 35 billion parameters and it is also Microsoft's first reasoning mode. It can perform mathematical tasks, problem solving and controlling AI agents. In the SWE Bench Pro benchmark test, its capabilities are better than Claude Opus 4.6.
Next, MAI-Image-2.5 was trained completely from the ground up without using the distillation techniques of other AI models. This technique is controversial because OpenAI says it is like stealing because it was done by a Chinese company and Elon Musk admitted that it was also done by xAI.
Because it is trained using commercially licensed data, MAI-Image-2.5 customers do not have to worry about being sued in the future if the generated images used can cause them to be sued. MAI-Image-2.5 Flash is a faster model for generating images from text and image editing with better performance than Nano Banana Pro.
MAI-Code-1-Flash is a 5 billion parameter programming model that is efficient in inference. This model is specially designed and deeply integrated into GitHub Copilot, VS Code and various Microsoft tools.
Next, MAI Transcribe-1.5 is the best audio transcription model in the world according to Microsoft with support for 43 major languages. MAI-Voice-2 can generate high-quality conversational audio in 15 languages based on short audio samples. Finally, MAI-Voice-2-Flash which will be launched soon is a more efficient model with lower usage costs.
With the latest 7 MAI models, Microsoft AI is now expanding its own wings without having to rely on OpenAI's expertise. More importantly, Microsoft now has a family of AI models that are no longer plagued by issues of being developed with stolen data.
