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Microsoft MAI is Microsoft AI’s first-party model ecosystem, including reasoning, coding, image, voice, and transcription models.

Latest Version

Hill-Climbing MAI models

Jul 2026

Confidence

94%

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Context

N/A

last known / not captured

Versions

4

documented releases

Current Release Intelligence

Latest published version and metadata capture state

Release

Hill-Climbing MAI models

minor

Microsoft announced new Hill-Climbing MAI models being deployed for GitHub Copilot and Excel. This represents a significant update to the MAI model lineup with specialized versions optimized for coding assistance and spreadsheet productivity use cases.

Previous versionMAI-Image-2.5-Pro and MAI-Voice-2-Flash
Release dateJul 24, 2026
Context windowNot captured
Pricing{"MAI-Image-2.5-Pro":{"text_input":"$5 per 1M text input tokens","image_input":"$8 per 1M image input tokens","image_output":"$106 per 1M image output tokens"},"MAI-Voice-2-Flash":"$15 per 1M characters"}
Source trustOfficial

Decision Fit

Best For

Repository coding and rapid iteration

Avoid If

You need non-technical, no-setup workflows

Release Diff

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Version

- MAI-Image-2.5-Pro and MAI-Voice-2-Flash
+ Hill-Climbing MAI models

Context Window

Not captured in this release; showing last known value when available

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Pricing

Not captured in this release; showing last known value when available

{"MAI-Image-2.5-Pro":{"text_input":"$5 per 1M text input tokens","image_input":"$8 per 1M image input tokens","image_output":"$106 per 1M image output tokens"},"MAI-Voice-2-Flash":"$15 per 1M characters"}

Current Capabilities

Hill-Climbing MAI models with previous-release movement

Codingnew
Coding
8/10
Tool Use+2
Tool Use
7/10

Previous score: 5

Reasoning+4
Reasoning
7/10

Previous score: 3

Version History

4 releases documented

Hill-Climbing MAI models

July 24, 2026

Source →

Microsoft announced new Hill-Climbing MAI models being deployed for GitHub Copilot and Excel. This represents a significant update to the MAI model lineup with specialized versions optimized for coding assistance and spreadsheet productivity use cases.

minorImportance 6/10Confidence 75%Official source
Why moved: minor update with official source and 75% confidenceImpact 11.1
coding: 8/10tool_use: 7/10reasoning: 7/10

MAI-Image-2.5-Pro and MAI-Voice-2-Flash

July 24, 2026

Source →

Microsoft released two new model variants: MAI-Image-2.5-Pro, a high-fidelity image generation and editing model with precise in-image text rendering now in public preview, and MAI-Voice-2-Flash, a speed-optimized voice model that is 2x faster and 32% cheaper than MAI-Voice-2 also now in public preview. MAI-Image-2.5 is now the sole model powering Bing Image Creator end-to-end, and MAI-Voice-2-Flash now powers Dynamics 365 Contact Center for enterprise call center agents.

majorImportance 8/10Confidence 81%Official source
Why moved: major update with official source and 81% confidenceImpact 15.8
high impact
speed: 9/10tool_use: 5/10reasoning: 3/10multimodal: 9/10
Pricing: {"MAI-Image-2.5-Pro":{"text_input":"$5 per 1M text input tokens","image_input":"$8 per 1M image input tokens","image_output":"$106 per 1M image output tokens"},"MAI-Voice-2-Flash":"$15 per 1M characters"}

MAI-Voice-2

June 3, 2026

Source →

Microsoft introduced MAI-Voice-2, a new expressive speech model supporting 10 languages. This represents a significant update to Microsoft's MAI voice capabilities with improved expressiveness across multiple languages.

minorImportance 6/10Confidence 75%Official source
Why moved: minor update with official source and 75% confidenceImpact 11.1
multimodal: 7/10

MAI-Transcribe-1.5

June 3, 2026

Source →

Microsoft announced MAI-Transcribe-1.5, a new version of their transcription AI model. The update focuses on improved accuracy, context-awareness, and production-readiness compared to previous versions.

minorImportance 6/10Confidence 75%Official source
Why moved: minor update with official source and 75% confidenceImpact 11.1
speed: 6/10reasoning: 5/10multimodal: 7/10

Quick Facts

ProviderMicrosoft AI
Latest VersionHill-Climbing MAI models
Last UpdatedJul 2026
Context WindowNot captured
Pricing{"MAI-Image-2.5-Pro":{"text_input":"$5 per 1M text input tokens","image_input":"$8 per 1M image input tokens","image_output":"$106 per 1M image output tokens"},"MAI-Voice-2-Flash":"$15 per 1M characters"}
Source TrustOfficial
Confidence94%

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