Caitlin van der Merwe

Talent Sourcer @ Microsoft AI (via JoinTalent) | AuDHD | Lover of Cats & Books

[Jonny Kaye @k44yej]

You can read the blog on our SEVEN new models @microsotai here! Incredibly exciting times ahead! Follow and like for more updates on roles at our superintelligence lab @microsoft https://t.co/7vulknOxbZ

[Microsoft AI @MicrosoftAI]

Seven new models launching at Build: let’s go!
Reasoning. Code. Image. Transcribe. Voice.

Built from scratch on a clean data lineage, designed for efficiency, working seamlessly as a family of models

Thread 🧵
#MSBuild

[Mustafa Suleyman @mustafasuleyman]

Super excited to announce seven new world-class MAI models today. They represent what we consider a new era in AI designed to keep you in control and on the frontier.
First is our text foundation model, MAI-Thinking-1, exceptionally strong on reasoning and SWE tasks.
- It’s a 35B active parameter MoE with a 256K context window. Independent human raters on Surge prefer it for overall quality in blind side-by-sides versus Sonnet 4.6, and it’s achieved 97% on AIME 2025, the key measure of its general-purpose reasoning abilities.
- It's at 53% on SWE Bench Pro, placing it right alongside Opus 4.6 on one of the toughest coding benchmarks.
- And since we co-designed our models with our own silicon, MAI-Thinking-1 is optimized on our MAIA 200 chip. Benchmarking head-to-head against the GB200, we see 30% better performance per dollar as well as a 1.4x performance-per-watt gain when running our MAI models on the MAIA 200 end-to-end.

Next is MAI-Image-2.5 and its Flash variant. Two super strong models now at #2 on the leaderboards, surpassing the score of Nano Banana 2 on image editing.

Last for now is MAI-Code-1-Flash, our new inference efficient coding model, especially tuned for VS Code and GitHub Copilot CLI.
- Code-1-Flash achieves 51% on SWE Bench Pro, despite having just 5B parameters, putting it closer to Haiku in size but cheaper in cost.

All of this is the foundation for Microsoft Frontier Tuning. It lets you customize our models to create custom, company-specific agents that only you control. You can make our model, your model. Your data. Your agents. Your moat.

Early adopters are already seeing a difference. When we tuned our models for McKinsey’s tasks, MAI delivered the highest win rate, outperforming GPT-5.5 on quality, while being 10x lower on cost.

Also really excited to be collaborating with the amazing team at Mayo Clinic to jointly train a new frontier AI model for healthcare.

Our announcements today mark another milestone on the road to humanist superintelligence. You can learn more and about our other new models in our latest blog: https://t.co/v65eop5Ixq

[Caitlin van der Merwe @Recruiter_Cait]

As AI and agents take on execution, our own agency expands. The question is whether organizations are built to capture it.

Our 2026 #WorkTrendIndex Report is now live: https://t.co/vFoUxy07jD

[Caitlin van der Merwe @Recruiter_Cait]

@k44yej Ah. That’s just an engineer finally replying to an InMail from last year.

[Mustafa Suleyman @mustafasuleyman]

Our new image generator MAI-Image-2 is out! Available now on MAI Playground for everything from lifelike realism to detailed infographics.

Our team has been pushing immensely hard for this release, and we are now among the top models out there: #3 family on @arena.

Check out the details in our blog: https://t.co/03i8b9BjwX

It's shipping soon in Copilot and Bing Image Creator, as well as Microsoft Foundry.

Really proud of our progress on models and products - stay tuned for new releases and come join us on our Superintelligence mission!

[Microsoft AI @MicrosoftAI]

Meet MAI‑Image‑2. Built with creatives, for real creative work. Ranked #5 on @arena’s text‑to‑image leaderboard. Available now: https://t.co/qT5nArWDm6

[Jonny Kaye @k44yej]

Unfortunately couldn’t make #kubecon this year but I am hiring for k8s experts!

If you’re looking and have worked on build or management of large scale K8s clusters, low level operators and controllers or scheduling/ orchestration then @MicrosoftAI are keen!

DM me!

[Mustafa Suleyman @mustafasuleyman]

Live now on the MAI blog https://t.co/HDONj4owG4

[Mustafa Suleyman @mustafasuleyman]

In 2025, health was the #1 topic for Copilot mobile users. In our latest paper, we analyze over half a million conversations to understand what questions they're asking, and how to help.

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

Read more: https://t.co/qfelkfmINp

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

Announcing Copilot Cowork, a new way to complete tasks and get work done in M365.

When you hand off a task to Cowork, it turns your request into a plan and executes it across your apps and files, grounded in your work data and operating within M365’s security and governance boundaries.

[Jonny Kaye @k44yej]

If you work at Reality labs Meta in Zurich and could be affected by re org please DM me we have may open roles at @MicrosoftAI - follow me for more updates 🔔 #hiring #ai

[Jonny Kaye @k44yej]

I am #hiring for a Data Research Engineer for @MicrosoftAI

DM me if based in Europe and suitable: https://t.co/5zKWTuK7Ld

#ai #follow

[Caitlin van der Merwe @Recruiter_Cait]

Zurich continues to show up as a serious AI hub.

The Microsoft AI Tour Zurich brings together engineers, researchers, and leaders to dig into how AI is actually being built and scaled - not just theorised.

🎟️ Request your spot today: https://t.co/ecTVPnCC07
#AITourZurich #MAI

[Caitlin van der Merwe @Recruiter_Cait]

Trust is becoming a core hiring signal.
This study on how AI shapes trust online hits close to home for recruitment: as content gets easier to generate, judgment, credibility, and how people evaluate information matter more than ever.
https://t.co/4cwBHvTXTG

[Mustafa Suleyman @mustafasuleyman]

We just dropped what we believe is the world's largest study of AI conversations + it found what you talk to AI about has a lot to do with what time it is. @MicrosoftAI researchers found 3 different trends by day, time, and month and 1 rock solid constant https://t.co/t7MvPdIaps

[Mustafa Suleyman @mustafasuleyman]

It's a big day. Our Superintelligence team will be the first to use Maia 200 as we develop our frontier AI models.

[Fatima Hassan @_HassanF]

Small step forward, but:
No confirmation yet to SA partners of waiver.
As far as we know CDC funded projects have also stopped.

Absolute chaos created by orders, narrow waiver & lack of clarification/info.

Lives, jobs, services, research in dire risk.

@DIRCO_ZA @HealthZA

[Caitlin van der Merwe @Recruiter_Cait]

@CityofCT We need answers about this smell. I want to know if this is human kaka in my nostrils so I know how deep to clean them.