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Microsoft Build 2026: Project Polaris and Azure AI Foundry multi-model expansion for AI engineering teams

Project Polaris at Microsoft Build 2026: GitHub Copilot Model Swap, Azure AI Foundry Supported Models & On-Prem Options

Project Polaris replaces GPT-4 Turbo as the GitHub Copilot default in August 2026. Microsoft Build 2026 also expanded Azure AI Foundry to OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, DeepSeek, Mistral, Meta, and xAI—with on-prem deployment via Azure Arc.

June 10, 2026via Microsoft

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MAI-Thinking-1: Microsoft's First Proprietary Reasoning Model — Azure Foundry Routing, OpenRouter, and Team Decisions (2026)

MAI-Thinking-1 is Microsoft's first proprietary 35B MoE reasoning model — distillation-free, matches Claude Opus on SWE-Bench, on Azure Foundry. MAI-Code-1-Flash powers Copilot auto-routing with 60% fewer tokens. A routing guide for teams on Claude or GPT-4o.

June 7, 2026via Microsoft AI