# Microsoft AI — Announcing 3 new world class MAI models, available in Foundry

- Company: Microsoft AI (microsoft.ai)
- Announced: 2026-04-02
- Category: new-model
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://microsoft.ai/news/today-were-announcing-3-new-world-class-mai-models-available-in-foundry
- Record: https://forck.live/items/8430-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: MAI-Transcribe-1 for speech-to-text, MAI-Voice-1 for voice generation, and MAI-Image-2 for image generation. The models are available in Microsoft Foundry and MAI Playground with competitive pricing. MAI-Transcribe-1 offers state-of-the-art transcription across the top 25 most-used languages, MAI-Voice-1 can generate 60 seconds of audio in one second, and MAI-Image-2 provides at least 2x faster generation times.

## Evidence

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

> Introducing MAI-Transcribe-1 , alongside MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-Image-2 . World-class quality at lightning speeds, now available at the most competitive prices.

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