Mistral AI announced Magistral, its first reasoning model family, with Magistral Small as a 24B open-weight Apache 2.0 model and Magistral Medium for enterprise use. The company emphasizes traceable multilingual reasoning, professional-domain use cases, and faster reasoning in Le Chat through Think mode and Flash Answers. Magistral Small is available on Hugging Face, while Magistral Medium is available in Le Chat preview and via La Plateforme API.
Microsoft used Build to present itself as both an AI platform and a first-party model lab, announcing seven MAI models across reasoning, code, image, transcription, and voice. The standout was MAI-Thinking-1, described as a 35B active MoE with 256K context and clean data lineage. The recap also ties the launches to GitHub Copilot, Windows agent runtime ambitions, Web IQ grounding APIs, Foundry distribution, and MAIA 200 hardware.