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October 2026

Oct 15
MAI-Base-2MicrosoftIn trainingFrontierCopy the link to this entry
Pre-training finished: 2.8 trillion parameters, 80 billion active per token. Now in post-training, with no release date. Microsoft says it beats every open-weight model it tested and plans to license the weights to trusted partners.
Microsoft finishes pre-training its 2.8T MAI-Base-2 model
Oct 9
Microsoft-Decision-1MicrosoftReleasedSpecialisedCopy the link to this entry
A small decision model built on Alibaba’s Qwen3.5-9B that scores a fixed list of options, as a rival to Jev. Microsoft says it is the most accurate on 36 tests; no outside test yet.
Claim check: Not checked yet
Price $0.042 per million input tokens; output is free
Microsoft launches Decision-1, a fast model for AI choices
Oct 1
MAI-Transcribe-2-StreamingMicrosoft AIPreviewVoiceCopy the link to this entry
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

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