Microsoft plans to integrate 130B parameter MAI Code 1.1 Flash into Windows 11

At an event held in San Francisco at 10:00 AM Pacific Time on October 7, Microsoft announced plans to integrate the MAI Code 1.1 Flash model into Windows 11 devices. Serving as an upgraded version of the original MAI-Code-1-Flash released in June, the model features 130B parameters and a 256K context window, utilizing 3-bit quantization to achieve an 80% reduction in size. Currently, MAI Code 1.1 Flash has already been integrated into development environments such as GitHub Copilot and VS Code, where it handles daily coding, repository Q&A, code refactoring, and tool calling scenarios. Microsoft positions the model to provide high-frequency, low-cost, and low-latency task execution within Copilot, helping users plan, reason, and execute tasks in real-world development workflows while consuming fewer tokens. In terms of performance, compared to the June release, MAI Code 1.1 Flash delivers about a 22% improvement on Terminal-Bench 2.1 within GitHub Copilot CLI and achieves gains on .NET tasks. Microsoft now plans to bring this model further into the Windows 11 operating system.