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Organization

Microsoft

Model developer · Research lab · Cloud provider · Enterprise software · Developer platform · Consumer products · Redmond, Washington

Microsoft develops and sells software, cloud services, and devices. Its AI offerings include the Microsoft Foundry platform on Azure, Copilot assistants, and models developed in-house, including the Phi family of small language models and MAI models.1245

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Key facts

Legal name
Microsoft Corporation1
Ownership
Publicly traded
Legal form
Washington corporation1
Headquarters
Redmond, Washington1
Founded
19751
Sectors
Cloud, Enterprise, Open models, Frontier models, Research

What is and isn’t public

An evidence-based summary of what this catalog has documented. It is not a verdict on the organization as a whole.

Microsoft publishes downloadable weights for Phi models under the MIT License and released the Muse (WHAM) research model under a non-commercial research license. The MAI models announced in August 2025 and its Copilot services are offered as hosted products without public weights.475

Products

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Hosted model products

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Microsoft: hosted model products
ProductKindDocumented delivery and accessReviewed
Microsoft Copilot (external site: microsoft.com)Assistant appAI assistant available through the Copilot mobile app and inside Microsoft 365 apps; Microsoft 365 individual subscription plans include Copilot features, with usage limits that vary by plan.3Sep 29, 2026

Other products

Microsoft: other products
ProductKindDocumented delivery and accessReviewed
Microsoft Foundry (external site: azure.microsoft.com)Cloud platformAzure platform for building AI applications and agents, with a catalog of models from Microsoft and other providers; building agents requires an Azure subscription, and pricing depends on the services used.2Sep 29, 2026

Related open artifacts

Records in the Open Models & Tools directory that list this organization as a maintainer or publisher.

Model families (2)

Model releases (3)

  • Phi-4-mini-flash-reasoningModel releaseAvailability: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.1): Open-weight
  • Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15BModel releaseAvailability: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.1): Open-weight
  • WHAM 1.6B (Muse)Model releaseAvailability: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.1): Open-weight

Frameworks (3)

Runtimes (1)

Organizational relationships

Units and subsidiaries have their own records and are counted separately from their parent.

Notable documented facts

  • Microsoft publishes Phi models on Hugging Face and Microsoft Foundry, and its Phi product page states that Phi models are available under the MIT License.4
  • Microsoft AI announced two in-house models, MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview, in August 2025, describing MAI-1-preview as its first foundation model trained end-to-end. They were made available through Copilot features, Copilot Labs, public testing, and API access for trusted testers; the announcement did not include downloadable weights.5
  • Microsoft Research released Muse, a World and Human Action Model (WHAM) for gameplay ideation, with weights and sample data in February 2025.6

U.S. eligibility

How this record meets the catalog’s published eligibility policy.

Eligible · basis: U.S. headquarters

Microsoft Corporation is incorporated in Washington and lists One Microsoft Way, Redmond, Washington as its address on the cover page of its Form 10-K for fiscal year 2026.1

Assessed Sep 29, 2026

Eligibility policy

Sources

  1. 1.
    Microsoft Corporation Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2026 (external site: sec.gov)

    Microsoft Corporation (U.S. SEC filing) · Filing · published Jul 29, 2026 · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  2. 2.
    Microsoft Foundry | Microsoft Azure (external site: azure.microsoft.com)

    Microsoft · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026

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    Two in-house models in support of our mission | Microsoft AI (external site: microsoft.ai)

    Microsoft AI · Announcement · published Aug 28, 2025 · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  6. 6.
    Introducing Muse: Our first generative AI model designed for gameplay ideation (external site: microsoft.com)

    Microsoft Research · Announcement · published Feb 19, 2025 · accessed Sep 29, 2026

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