Frank X. Shaw

lead communications for Microsoft. don't check this site often; best to try and reach me other ways.
@[email protected]

[Frank X. Shaw @fxshaw]

i refuse to be enraged by opinion pieces no matter how many times they are re-tweeted here. I am enraged enough by news.

[Frank X. Shaw @fxshaw]

@kdaigle @jacobandreou DON'T ENCOURAGE HAYDEN PEOPLE!!! :)

[Frank X. Shaw @fxshaw]

@samfbiddle you have clearly never seen my word docs in action Sam.

[Frank X. Shaw @fxshaw]

@haydenfield debating if this is a compliment or a diss.

[Kyle Daigle @kdaigle]

Chopped it up with @swyx on @latentspacepod and we ran the gamut on this one. We talked platform, how roles are evolving, the agentic era, the future of open source, and what we’re building next. Spoiler: check out the @github Copilot app. 😉

[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

[toddbishop @toddbishop]

Here are the details from my sneak peek in Redmond last week — Inside Microsoft’s Project Solara: A new platform for devices that run AI agents instead of apps https://t.co/mxDqtEkiRy via @GeekWire

[Frank X. Shaw @fxshaw]

been using a version of this for a bit and just love it!!!

https://t.co/mwcHytNrfH

[Charles Lamanna @clamanna]

Five core advantages you get: intelligence, speed, efficiency, scale, and security.

[Dona Sarkar @donasarkar]

I actually like this badgey thing. This can be SUPER useful for retail popups and a whole bunch of stuff in the service industry like bars, restaurants etc. #MSBuild

[Frank X. Shaw @fxshaw]

https://t.co/SdH2WHAZMD

[Pavan Davuluri @pavandavuluri]

Energized to be back at Build with the developer community and share what we have been building. Today, we're introducing new @Windows capabilities designed to meet developers where they are with less friction and more flexibility, across local and cloud, any language, any framework. https://t.co/fT5KAjW8qr

[Frank X. Shaw @fxshaw]

@film_girl type faster christina. ;)

[Tom Warren @tomwarren]

it’s time for Microsoft Build 2026. Keynote kicks off at 9:30AM PT / 12:30PM ET / 5:30 UK. Expect new Microsoft AI models, Windows dev improvements, and a little surprise or two. Follow along 👇 https://t.co/t1SttjU4dO

[Frank X. Shaw @fxshaw]

Fun event tonight in SF day before Microsoft Build - a partnership with the great team at Lectures on Tap; thoughtful presentation by @kevin_scott and fun to see so many people!

[Frank X. Shaw @fxshaw]

@donasarkar @tomwarren no dona dont encourage him

[Frank X. Shaw @fxshaw]

@MikeIsaac says who

[Brad Smith @BradSmi]

Twenty years ago, @Microsoft broke ground on our first data center in Quincy, Washington. At a time when so many small towns have been shrinking, Quincy has grown, and the partnership behind that story is one worth telling. Watch how a farm town in Central Washington helped build the cloud, and built a thriving future of its own.

[Microsoft @Microsoft]

"AI success isn't about the best model. It's about intelligence and trust."

In a new @CRN cover story, Microsoft's @JudsonAlthoff on why managed services are the partner superpower of the AI era. https://t.co/7yWsEFf9YO

[Frank X. Shaw @fxshaw]

really fun to see this come to life!

[Microsoft Developer @msdev]

Today we’re launching Command Line, a new technical blog about how and why we build.

Our first stories go behind the architecture, design decisions, and research shaping the next wave of developer tools.

Stay tuned for more next week at #MicrosoftBuild https://t.co/JKbHGpz130