Tags: Foundry

Microsoft announced the launch of three in‑house AI models—MAI‑Transcribe‑1, MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑Image‑2—through its Foundry platform and MAI Playground. The models, designed for speech‑to‑text, synthetic voice and image generation, aim to rival offerings from OpenAI, Google and Amazon. Built after a 2019 contract with OpenAI lifted a restriction on Microsoft’s own frontier AI work, the new suite promises faster performance, multilingual support and competitive pricing, with rollouts already underway in Bing and PowerPoint. Read more

Six months after renegotiating its contract with OpenAI, Microsoft unveiled MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-Image-2 on its Foundry platform. The new models, built by a ten‑person team, boast lower error rates, faster speeds and competitive pricing, giving the tech giant a functional AI stack independent of its former partner. The rollout underscores Microsoft’s new freedom to pursue "humanist superintelligence" and could reshape enterprise AI spending. Read more

Palantir announced a multi-year, multi-million-dollar strategic partnership with Lumen Technologies. The deal pairs Palantir's Foundry and Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) with Lumen's edge computing and broadband infrastructure, enabling Lumen to accelerate its transformation from a traditional telecom provider to a modern tech infrastructure player. Lumen reports that using Palantir's technology contributed to significant cost reductions and informs its broader enterprise AI service offering. The collaboration marks one of many partnerships Palantir has formed across diverse sectors this year. Read more