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Microsoft releases three multimodal AI models to compete with OpenAI and Google
Microsoft AI released three foundational models on April 2: MAI-Transcribe-1 for speech-to-text across 25 languages, MAI-Voice-1 for audio generation, and MAI-Image-2 for video generation. The company positions these models as cheaper alternatives to Google and OpenAI offerings. Models are available on Microsoft Foundry with pricing starting at $0.36 per hour for transcription.
Microsoft's MAI-Transcribe-1 achieves lowest word error rate on FLEURS, costs $0.36/audio hour
Microsoft has released MAI-Transcribe-1, a speech-to-text model that achieves the lowest word error rate on the FLEURS benchmark across 25 languages, outperforming Whisper-large-V3, GPT-Transcribe, and Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite. The model runs 2.5 times faster than Microsoft's previous Azure Fast offering and costs $0.36 per audio hour.