Microsoft launches three in-house AI models to establish independence from OpenAI and Google in the competitive generative AI market.

Microsoft released MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2 on Wednesday, covering speech-to-text, voice generation, and image creation.

The models are available immediately through Microsoft Foundry and a new MAI Playground, targeting enterprise AI applications.

The launch represents Microsoft's first major output from its superintelligence team, formed six months ago by Mustafa Suleyman to achieve 'AI self-sufficiency.'

The three modalities—transcription, voice, and image generation—represent the most commercially valuable areas in enterprise AI.