Microsoft launches its own cybersecurity model MAI-Cyber-1-Flash but still depends on OpenAI for the toughest tasks

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Microsoft introduces MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, a compact security model that scores 96 percent on the CyberGym benchmark when embedded in its MDASH multi-agent system.

Microsoft says costs should drop by 50 percent compared to pure frontier models, since only tough cases get passed to GPT-5.4.

For complex reasoning, Microsoft still relies on OpenAI.

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