Size of Microsoft's local MAI-Code-1.1-Flash revealed: 137B-total, 6.8B-active MoE (per community)

Verified (fact)

According to a Reddit r/LocalLLaMA post citing a Microsoft blog post, the local version of MAI Code 1.1 Flash, a coding model from Microsoft AI, is an MoE that activates only 6.8 billion (6.8B) of its 137 billion (137B) total parameters.

Why it matters (interpretation)

This reveals the specific size of the on-PC local version covered on Oct. 8. It reflects a trend toward running local coding agents on large MoE models with small active parameter counts.

Sources

• Community 137B A6.8B model from Microsoft? Reddit

Story thread

1. 2026-10-07 Microsoft and NVIDIA unveil RTX Spark-based Surface devices; Windows Copilot gets local file access and OS-wide actions
2. 2026-10-08 Microsoft releases a version of its coding model MAI-Code-1.1-Flash optimized to run locally on PCs, timed with the Surface Laptop Ultra launch (report)
3. 2026-10-08 Microsoft prices RTX Spark-based Surface Laptop Ultra from $2,599 and opens $5,999 Surface RTX Spark Dev Box preorders (report)
4. 2026-10-15 Size of Microsoft's local MAI-Code-1.1-Flash revealed: 137B-total, 6.8B-active MoE (per community)

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