MAI-Code-1-Flash: Microsoft's small coding model rolls out across Copilot

MAI-Code-1-Flash — Microsoft's purpose-built small coding model — is now available across additional GitHub Copilot surfaces: Copilot CLI, Copilot cloud agent, the GitHub Copilot app, and Copilot Chat. The rollout is part of GitHub's strategy to give developers a fast, low-latenc

The same week also brought updates to Copilot code review (repository-level AGENTS.md support, easier review requests on draft PRs), AI-credit usage metrics in the Copilot REST API, Copilot-authored PRs now indexed in author searches, and the deprecation of Opus 4.6 (fast). Together, the changes signal a tiered model menu: cheap in-house models for daily work, frontier models on demand.