Releases
36 matching — model launches, API releases, product updates, financial events and news.
September 20262
Sep 4, 2026
MAI-Image-2.6 and Flash enter Foundry public previewModel release
Microsoft makes MAI-Image-2.6 and its Flash variant available in public preview through Microsoft Foundry.
Sep 3, 2026
MAI-Transcribe-2 launchedModel release
Microsoft AI launches MAI-Transcribe-2 with automatic language identification and high-speed transcription across 60 languages.
August 20261
Aug 10, 2026
MAI-Image-2.6 announcedModel release
Microsoft AI announces MAI-Image-2.6 with major benchmark improvements in generation and image editing.
June 20267
Jun 2, 2026
MAI-Voice-2 Flash announcedAnnouncedModel release
Microsoft AI announces MAI-Voice-2 Flash as a lower-cost, ultra-efficient speech-generation variant.
Jun 2, 2026
MAI-Voice-2 launchedModel release
Microsoft AI launches MAI-Voice-2 with natural multilingual speech generation and safeguarded short-sample voice adaptation.
Jun 2, 2026
MAI-Transcribe-1.5 launchedModel release
Microsoft AI launches MAI-Transcribe-1.5 with high-speed transcription and support for domain terminology across 43 languages.
Jun 2, 2026
MAI-Image-2.5 Flash launchedModel release
Microsoft AI launches a lower-cost, latency-optimized Flash variant of MAI-Image-2.5.
Jun 2, 2026
MAI-Image-2.5 launchedModel release
Microsoft AI launches MAI-Image-2.5 for high-fidelity text-to-image generation and controllable image editing.
Jun 2, 2026
MAI-Code-1-Flash launchedModel release
Microsoft AI launches MAI-Code-1-Flash, an efficient agentic coding model integrated into GitHub Copilot and VS Code.
Jun 2, 2026
MAI-Thinking-1 launchedModel release
Microsoft AI launches MAI-Thinking-1, its flagship in-house reasoning model for complex instructions, mathematics and coding.
April 20262
Apr 2, 2026
MAI-Image-2 launched in Microsoft FoundryModel release
Microsoft AI launches MAI-Image-2 for faster, higher-quality image generation in Copilot and Microsoft Foundry.
Apr 2, 2026
MAI-Transcribe-1 launched in Microsoft FoundryModel release
Microsoft AI launches MAI-Transcribe-1 for high-speed multilingual speech-to-text through Microsoft Foundry.
March 20261
Mar 4, 2026
Phi-4 Reasoning Vision releasedOpen weights
Microsoft Research releases Phi-4 Reasoning Vision, a 15-billion-parameter open-weight multimodal reasoning model.
October 20251
Oct 13, 2025
MAI-Image-1 announcedModel release
Microsoft AI announces MAI-Image-1, its first image-generation model developed entirely in-house.
August 20252
Aug 28, 2025
MAI-Voice-1 releasedModel release
Microsoft AI releases MAI-Voice-1, its first in-house expressive speech-generation model, through Copilot experiences.
Aug 28, 2025
MAI-1 Preview begins public testingModel release
Microsoft AI begins public testing of MAI-1 Preview, its first end-to-end internally trained foundation model.
July 20251
Jul 9, 2025
Phi-4 Mini Flash Reasoning releasedOpen weights
Microsoft releases Phi-4 Mini Flash Reasoning for fast reasoning on edge, mobile and real-time systems.
April 20253
Apr 30, 2025
Phi-4 Mini Reasoning releasedOpen weights
Microsoft releases Phi-4 Mini Reasoning for efficient step-by-step mathematical reasoning on constrained hardware.
Apr 30, 2025
Phi-4 Reasoning Plus releasedOpen weights
Microsoft releases Phi-4 Reasoning Plus, adding reinforcement learning for stronger and longer reasoning traces.
Apr 30, 2025
Phi-4 Reasoning releasedOpen weights
Microsoft releases Phi-4 Reasoning, a 14-billion-parameter model trained for complex multistep math, science and coding tasks.
February 20252
Feb 26, 2025
Phi-4 Multimodal releasedOpen weights
Microsoft releases Phi-4 Multimodal, a 5.6-billion-parameter model jointly processing speech, vision and text.
Feb 26, 2025
Phi-4 Mini releasedOpen weights
Microsoft releases Phi-4 Mini, a compact long-context language model with multilingual and function-calling capabilities.
December 20241
Dec 12, 2024
Phi-4 releasedOpen weights
Microsoft releases Phi-4, a 14-billion-parameter small language model specializing in complex reasoning.
August 20242
Aug 20, 2024
Phi-3.5 Vision releasedOpen weights
Microsoft releases Phi-3.5 Vision for multimodal image and text understanding.
Aug 20, 2024
Phi-3.5 MoE releasedOpen weights
Microsoft releases Phi-3.5 MoE, a mixture-of-experts small language model.

