Releases
153 matching — model launches, API releases, product updates, financial events and news.
April 20261
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 20262
Mar 16, 2026Microsoft and NVIDIA expand Foundry and physical-AI integrationsPartnership
Microsoft and NVIDIA expand integration across Foundry agents, Azure AI infrastructure, NVIDIA accelerators and physical-AI workflows.
Mar 4, 2026Phi-4 Reasoning Vision releasedOpen weights
Microsoft Research releases Phi-4 Reasoning Vision, a 15-billion-parameter open-weight multimodal reasoning model.
November 20251
Nov 18, 2025Claude models launch in Microsoft Foundry and Microsoft 365 CopilotPartnership
Microsoft and Anthropic expand their partnership, bringing Claude models to Microsoft Foundry and Microsoft 365 Copilot.
October 20252
Oct 13, 2025MAI-Image-1 announcedModel release
Microsoft AI announces MAI-Image-1, its first image-generation model developed entirely in-house.
Oct 1, 2025Microsoft Agent Framework enters public previewSDK release
Microsoft introduces the open-source Microsoft Agent Framework, unifying agent-development concepts from Semantic Kernel and AutoGen.
August 20252
Aug 28, 2025MAI-Voice-1 releasedModel release
Microsoft AI releases MAI-Voice-1, its first in-house expressive speech-generation model, through Copilot experiences.
Aug 28, 2025MAI-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 20252
Jul 23, 2025GitHub Spark enters public previewProduct launch
GitHub opens Spark to public preview for building and deploying full-stack applications from natural-language prompts.
Jul 9, 2025Phi-4 Mini Flash Reasoning releasedOpen weights
Microsoft releases Phi-4 Mini Flash Reasoning for fast reasoning on edge, mobile and real-time systems.
May 20256
May 19, 2025Microsoft Discovery introducedProduct launch
Microsoft introduces Discovery, an agentic AI platform for scientific research and industrial R&D.
May 19, 2025NLWeb open project launchedSDK release
Microsoft launches NLWeb, an open MCP-compatible project for adding conversational and agent-accessible interfaces to websites.
May 19, 2025Microsoft 365 Copilot Tuning introducedProduct launch
Microsoft introduces Copilot Tuning for adapting models and agents to organization-specific data, workflows and expertise.
May 19, 2025Windows AI Foundry launchedProduct launch
Microsoft launches Windows AI Foundry as a unified platform for the local and cloud AI developer lifecycle on Windows.
May 19, 2025Azure AI Foundry Agent Service becomes generally availableProduct launch
Microsoft makes Azure AI Foundry Agent Service generally available with multi-agent orchestration and open-protocol support.
May 19, 2025GitHub Copilot Coding Agent launchedProduct launch
GitHub launches an asynchronous Copilot coding agent that works in an isolated environment and opens pull requests for review.
April 20255
Apr 30, 2025Phi-4 Mini Reasoning releasedOpen weights
Microsoft releases Phi-4 Mini Reasoning for efficient step-by-step mathematical reasoning on constrained hardware.
Apr 30, 2025Phi-4 Reasoning Plus releasedOpen weights
Microsoft releases Phi-4 Reasoning Plus, adding reinforcement learning for stronger and longer reasoning traces.
Apr 30, 2025Phi-4 Reasoning releasedOpen weights
Microsoft releases Phi-4 Reasoning, a 14-billion-parameter model trained for complex multistep math, science and coding tasks.
Apr 23, 2025Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2 spring release beginsFeature update
Microsoft begins rolling out its Wave 2 spring release with Researcher, Analyst, Agent Store, richer creation and expanded enterprise search.
Apr 4, 2025Microsoft Copilot gains Memory, Actions and Deep ResearchFeature update
Microsoft updates Copilot with personalization through Memory, task execution through Actions, Deep Research and expanded Vision capabilities.
March 20253
Mar 25, 2025Copilot Analyst announcedProduct launch
Microsoft announces Analyst, a Microsoft 365 Copilot reasoning agent for data analysis, modeling and report creation.
Mar 25, 2025Researcher and Analyst agents announcedProduct launch
Microsoft announces Researcher and Analyst as reasoning agents for multistep research and data analysis in Microsoft 365 Copilot.
Mar 3, 2025Dragon Copilot announcedProduct launch
Microsoft introduces Dragon Copilot, combining ambient clinical documentation, dictation and healthcare workflow assistance.
February 20251
Feb 26, 2025Phi-4 Multimodal releasedOpen weights
Microsoft releases Phi-4 Multimodal, a 5.6-billion-parameter model jointly processing speech, vision and text.