Microsoft ships MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, MAI-Image-2 in Azure AI Foundry; kills Xbox Copilot

Microsoft released three production-grade in-house models in Azure AI Foundry: MAI-Transcribe-1 (25-language STT, 2.5x faster), MAI-Voice-1 (hyper-realistic branded voice), and MAI-Image-2 (campaign-ready images). Eleven NSDI '26 papers detailed Azure's roadmap for AI inference cost, accelerator comms, memory scaling, and programmable security. Separately, new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma killed Copilot for console.