Copilot News 08/11/2026 AI Rating: Medium

MAI-Code-1.1-Flash Rolls Out in GitHub Copilot

#GitHub Copilot#Microsoft#MAI-Code#Coding Models#Vision

Microsoft’s newest small-tier coding model, MAI-Code-1.1-Flash, is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot, building on MAI-Code-1-Flash with native vision support and broad improvements at a significantly lower price.

Details

  • What’s new versus the previous model: MAI-Code-1.1-Flash adds native vision support for image understanding and delivers improvements across coding quality, instruction following, tool use, and overall performance compared with MAI-Code-1-Flash
  • Pricing: The model is priced 73% lower than MAI-Code-1-Flash; for Copilot subscribers on annual plans, it’s billed at a 0.25x premium request multiplier
  • Access by plan: Free and Student users get the model through automatic model selection; Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise users can select it manually
  • Platform availability: The model is accessible across VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs, GitHub Mobile, and other Copilot surfaces
  • Enterprise rollout: For Business and Enterprise customers, the underlying model policy is disabled by default, so administrators need to explicitly enable it before their users can access MAI-Code-1.1-Flash
  • Predecessor being retired: With this launch, GitHub confirmed MAI-Code-1-Flash will be deprecated across all Copilot experiences on September 1, 2026, pushing users toward the newer, cheaper, vision-capable model

How to try it

Free, Student, Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise users can pick up MAI-Code-1.1-Flash today wherever Copilot’s model picker is available; Business and Enterprise admins first need to enable the corresponding model policy in their organization’s Copilot settings.

Source https://github.blog/changelog/2026-08-11-mai-code-1-1-flash-available-in-github-copilot

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