Miju LabsWhy they are on the map
Posted 'last day at Microsoft AI' on X, 2026-08-01 source — evidence dated 2026-08
Shapes what 'good data' means.
How Microsoft AI (MAI) buys data
MAI-Image-1 (Oct 2025) and MAI-Image-2 (Mar 2026) were shaped with feedback from 'photographers, designers, and visual storytellers' and benchmarked on LMArena/Arena.ai (#3 family). Jun 2026 launch cites blind human side-by-sides (MAI-Thinking-1 on 1,276 tasks) and 'clean, licensed, traceable' data without distillation. Several open MAI Superintelligence post-training roles (2026).
MAI Superintelligence division (since Nov 2025) under Suleyman trains MAI models; Copilot split out under Jacob Andreou (Mar 2026). No public human-data org chart.
Known vendors: lmarena
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