# Microsoft AI — Today we're announcing 3 new world class MAI models, available in Foundry

- Company: Microsoft AI (microsoft.ai)
- Announced: 2026-04-02
- Category: availability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://microsoft.ai/news/today-were-announcing-3-new-world-class-mai-models-available-in-foundry/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/10927-today-we-re-announcing-3-new-world-class-mai-models-available-in-foundry
- Subject: MAI
- Models affected: MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, MAI-Image-2
- Pricing: MAI-Transcribe-1 starts at $0.36 per hour. MAI-Voice-1 starts at $22 per 1M characters. MAI-Image-2 starts at $5 per 1M tokens for text input and $33 per 1M tokens for image output.

Microsoft AI announced three new MAI models available in Microsoft Foundry and MAI Playground. MAI-Transcribe-1 offers speech-to-text transcription across 25 languages with batch speeds 2.5x faster than Azure Fast. MAI-Voice-1 generates natural speech with emotional range and can create custom voices from seconds of audio. MAI-Image-2 provides at least 2x faster image generation on Foundry and Copilot compared to previous versions.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://microsoft.ai/news/today-were-announcing-3-new-world-class-mai-models-available-in-foundry/:

> MAI-Transcribe-1 delivers state-of-the-art speech-to-text transcription across the top 25 most-used languages 1 according to the industry-standard FLEURS benchmark. 2 Built to deliver world class quality in messy, real-world environments, its batch transcription speed is 2.5x that of existing Microsoft Azure Fast offering.

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