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MAI-Transcribe-1

224 days since Microsoft announced it · 2 Apr 2026

MAI-Transcribe-1 is a closed-weights audio model from Microsoft, announced 2 Apr 2026. It costs $0.36 per hour.

Price: $0.36; per hour
Parameters: —; not disclosed

Announcement: microsoft.ai/news/state-of-the-art-speech-recognition-with-mai-transcribe-1

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A new one every ~61 days — due in ~19d.

MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming +28d 1 Oct 2026
MAI-Transcribe-2 +93d 3 Sep 2026
MAI-Transcribe-1.5 +61d 2 Jun 2026
MAI-Transcribe-1 2 Apr 2026

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Facts last updated 7 Nov 2026, from Microsoft’s own pages.