Microsoft's New MAI Code 1.1 Flash Gets Crushed by Deepseek on Both Price and Performance

DeepSeek publicises efforts to challenge Anthropic’s Claude code

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Microsoft's New Cybersecurity AI Beats Anthropic and Google — At Half the Price

While most of the AI industry keeps racing to build ever-larger frontier models, Microsoft just made the opposite bet: a smaller, cheaper, purpose-built model that outperforms the giants at one specific job. What Microsoft Launched On July 27, Microsoft unveiled MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, its first cybersecurity-specialized AI model built entirely in-house, alongside a new agentic security platform called Project Perception. The model is a fine-tuned, c…

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 goes GA, live and cheap — but its agent claims remain vendor-reported

By marcus-cole DeepSeek’s new flagship API model sells for roughly a forty-sixth of Fable 5’s cost on a realistic blended workload, according to a fact-check by kingy.ai — and it arrives claiming agent-coding gains that, so far, nobody outside DeepSeek has reproduced. The model, build DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813, reached general availability this week, listed by OpenRouter on 12 August 2026. The distance between those two facts is the story. The claims…

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

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. The move fits a pattern: Microsoft talks up open AI, then bakes worse proprietary models into its apps to protect margins. The article Microsoft's new MAI Code 1.1 Flash gets crushed by Deepseek on both pri…