Microsoft's New AI Models: Faster, Cheaper, and Open Source
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Microsoft unveils new AI models for text, voice, and images, offering faster and cheaper alternatives to competitors. The MAI Superintelligence team, led by CEO Mustafa Suleyman, introduces MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2. These models, built around real human communication, are now available on Microsoft Foundry and MAI Playground. Pricing starts at $0.36 per hour for transcribe, $22 per million characters for voice, and $5 per million text tokens or $33 for image outputs. Despite growing their own stack, Microsoft maintains partnerships, with over $13 billion invested in OpenAI.
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