Microsoft AI launched MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming on October 1, 2026, marking its inaugural streaming speech-to-text (STT) model. This release coincided with two new text-to-speech models, MAI-Voice-2.1 and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash. Independent analysis by Artificial Analysis has positioned MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming as the top-performing model out…
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Microsoft AI Releases MAI-Cyber-1-Flash for Cyber DefenseMicrosoft AI has released MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, its inaugural model specifically engineered for cyber defense applications. This model is not deployed as a standalone endpoint but operates within MDASH, Microsoft's multi-model agentic scanning harness.