Microsoft's new MAI Code 1.1 Flash gets crushed by Deepseek on both price and performance

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Microsoft has released MAI Code 1.1 Flash, a code model for GitHub Copilot that's said to be 25 percent more token-efficient at a quarter of the cost of its predecessor.

In benchmarks, though, it gets crushed by the cheaper Deepseek V4 Flash.

The move fits a pattern: Microsoft talks up open AI, then bakes worse proprietary models into its apps to protect margins.

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