Microsoft Says Latest AI Models Beat Claude, Google’s Nano Banana

In brief

• Microsoft said its new MAI-Thinking-1 model outperformed Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.6 in blind evaluations and matched Claude Opus 4.6 on a leading coding benchmark.
• The company said its MAI-Image-2.5 models surpassed Google’s Nano Banana 2 on image-editing leaderboards.
• The launch…