> Microsoft is not a frontier AI shop at all. They just resell others' models. They don't have anything of their own worth mentioning.
Microsoft's MAI-Code-1.1-Flash is on par with OpenAI's Luna line of models. If not for OpenAI's recent radical change of heart on Luna's pricing to hastily slap a 50% discount, MAI-Code-1.1-Flash could very well be the dominant cheap model.