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Microsoft’s AI team has shipped two first‑party foundation models — MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview — a move that signals a deliberate strategic pivot from being primarily a host and integrator of external models toward building proprietary AI infrastructure optimized for Microsoft’s product...

Microsoft’s AI unit has shipped two first‑party foundation models — MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview — marking a clear acceleration of in‑house model development even as the company continues to integrate and promote OpenAI’s frontier models such as GPT‑5 across its product stack. The launches are...

Microsoft’s move to ship MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview marks a clear strategic inflection: the company is no longer only a buyer and integrator of frontier models but a serious producer of first‑party models engineered to run inside Copilot and across Microsoft’s consumer surfaces. Microsoft...

Microsoft has quietly moved from heavy reliance on partner models to shipping its own large-scale, product-ready AI building blocks with the launch of MAI‑Voice‑1 and the public preview of MAI‑1‑preview, signaling a new phase in how voice and foundation models will power Copilot, Windows...

Microsoft has quietly crossed a strategic Rubicon: after years of tight integration with OpenAI, the company has begun shipping its own first-party foundation models — notably MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview — and is positioning them inside Copilot and Azure as the start of a long-term bid to...

Microsoft's debut of MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview marks a strategic inflection point: the company that built a multibillion-dollar symbiosis with OpenAI is now shipping its own, first-party foundation models and high-performance speech AI, embedding them into Copilot features and beginning...

Microsoft’s AI division publicly unveiled two fully in‑house models on August 28, 2025 — MAI‑Voice‑1, a high‑throughput speech generation system, and MAI‑1‑preview, an end‑to‑end trained text foundation model — marking a strategic pivot toward building product‑focused models that reduce...

Microsoft’s quiet rollout of MAI-1-preview and MAI‑Voice‑1 marks the start of a deliberate move to build a first‑party foundation‑model pipeline — one that seeks to reduce Microsoft’s operational dependence on OpenAI while embedding tailored, high‑throughput AI directly into Copilot and Windows...

Microsoft has quietly moved from partner-dependent experimentation to deploying its own, production‑focused models with the public debut of MAI‑Voice‑1 (a high‑throughput speech generator) and MAI‑1‑preview (an in‑house mixture‑of‑experts language model), rolling both into Copilot experiences...

Microsoft has quietly shipped its first fully in‑house AI models — MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview — marking a deliberate shift in strategy that reduces dependence on OpenAI’s stack and accelerates Microsoft’s plan to own more of the compute, models, and product surface area that power Copilot...

Microsoft has quietly shipped what it describes as its first purpose-built in‑house foundation models — MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview — and begun folding them into Copilot experiences as part of a broader push to own more of the AI stack that powers Microsoft 365, Teams, and other first‑party...

Microsoft has begun public testing of MAI‑1‑preview, a new in‑house large language model from Microsoft AI (MAI) that the company says will be trialed inside Copilot and evaluated publicly on LMArena — a move that signals an accelerated push to reduce reliance on OpenAI while building...

Microsoft’s AI group quietly cut the ribbon on two home‑grown foundation models on August 28, releasing a high‑speed speech engine and a consumer‑focused text model that together signal a strategic shift: Microsoft intends to build its own AI muscle even as its long, lucrative relationship with...

Microsoft’s AI team has quietly crossed a major productization threshold: the company has announced two purpose-built, in‑house foundation models — MAI‑Voice‑1, a natural speech generation model, and MAI‑1‑preview, a text-based mixture‑of‑experts foundation model — and begun integrating them...

Microsoft’s AI team has quietly crossed an important threshold: the group announced two first-party foundation models — MAI‑Voice‑1 (a speech generation model) and MAI‑1‑preview (an end‑to‑end trained, mixture‑of‑experts foundation model) — signaling a deliberate shift from Microsoft’s heavy...

Microsoft’s Windows lead has just sketched a future in which the operating system becomes ambient, multimodal and agentic — able to listen, see, and act — a shift powered by a new class of on‑device AI and tight hardware integration that will reshape how organisations manage and secure Windows...

Microsoft has ushered in a new era of AI accessibility for Windows users with the introduction of OpenAI’s gpt-oss models, enabled through the just-announced Azure AI Foundry Local platform. Billed as a way to democratize advanced artificial intelligence by shifting inference from the cloud to...