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AI model releases 2026
Every AI model launch, preview and reported plan from our reporting, newest first, with prices and the sourced story behind each entry. Updated with every edition.
Prices and claims are what each story reports; a company’s own benchmark stays a company claim. The claim check compares each maker’s main claim with an independent test that our story cites. Released models so far: 6 backed, 9 mixed, 12 not checked yet.
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October 2026
Microsoft’s first live speech-to-text model, in 60 languages, in public preview in Microsoft Foundry. Two text-to-speech models, MAI-Voice-2.1 and 2.1-Flash, came with it.
Claim check: BackedOn Artificial Analysis’s streaming leaderboard it gets 2.5% of words wrong at the first partial transcript, the lowest of 32 models shown; the next is 3.4%.
Price $0.54 per audio hour (introductory, until the end of 2026)
Microsoft’s live transcription model tops an outside test
September 2026
Text-to-speech in more than 100 languages; can clone a voice from a short sample after the owner records a consent statement.
Claim check: MixedArtificial Analysis ranks Flash second in its voice arena. The first places Google cites come from tests by Hume AI, whose founder co-wrote Google’s post.
Price About $0.54 to $0.81 per hour of audio until the end of the year
Google’s new Gemini voices can copy a person’s voice
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