# Optimizing the frontier performance curve | Microsoft AI

Microsoft released MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, which topped the CyberGym benchmark at 50% cost while running on H100s.

- MAI-Cyber-1-Flash beat Mythos by 12 percentage points on CyberGym.
- It handles up to 90% of tasks, reserving GPT 5.4 for the hardest 10%.
- MAI-Code-1-Flash shows 10% higher code accept rate and 10% lower token usage than GPT-5.4 Mini and Claude Haiku 4.5 in VS Code.
- MAI-Image-2.5-Flash cuts PowerPoint GPU costs up to 84% versus GPT-Image-2.
- MAI-Voice-2-Flash reduces Dynamics 365 Contact Center GPU costs by up to 89%.

## Why it matters

Enterprises running Microsoft AI products can now get frontier-level performance at a fraction of the GPU cost, changing their cost-performance tradeoffs.

## Sources

- [Microsoft AI: Optimizing the frontier performance curve | Microsoft AI](https://microsoft.ai/news/optimizing-the-frontier-performance-curve)

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Summarized by dstilled on 2026-07-30. https://dstilled.ai/story/48edf731-868c-436e-97e9-49b2b68480c5