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MAI Playground

Since Week 24 2026: Microsoft's limited-preview playground now hosts MAI-Transcribe-2, MAI-Voice-2.1, MAI-Image-2.6 and the MAI-Thinking-1 reasoning model, plus a Chatter beta voice feature. On 1 October Microsoft added three speech models: MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, its first real-time transcription model, covering 60 languages with automatic detection at $0.54 per audio hour through year end; MAI-Voice-2.1 at $22 per million characters across 23 languages; and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash at $15, with about 150 ms end-to-end latency. Microsoft says Transcribe-2-Streaming ranks first on Artificial Analysis, self-reported. Also on Foundry, OpenRouter and Vercel.