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VibeVoice: Microsoft's Open-Source Frontier Voice AI Hits 33K Stars
Microsoft's VibeVoice family delivers 60-minute single-pass ASR, sub-300ms streaming TTS, and an unusual content-safety story—all under MIT license.
By Marcus Rivera · 7 min · May 2, 2026
Microsoft Agent 365: $15-Per-Seat Control Plane for Your AI Agents
Microsoft Agent 365 hits general availability May 1, 2026 at $15 per user. Here's how it observes, governs, and secures every AI agent in your tenant—including OpenClaw and Claude Code.
By Sarah Chen · 6 min · May 2, 2026
MAI-Transcribe-1: Microsoft's Whisper Killer Hits 3.8% WER at $0.36/Hour
Microsoft's first fully in-house speech model hits 3.8% Word Error Rate across 25 languages — beating Whisper-large-v3 on every one. At $0.36/hour and 50% lower GPU cost, MAI-Transcribe-1 is the clearest signal yet that Microsoft is done renting AI from OpenAI.
By Sarah Chen · 6 min · Apr 17, 2026