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

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

The Decoder · Aug 12, 2026, 10:18 AM UTC

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.…