Microsoft Foundry Releases MAI Models and Expands o4-mini Fine-Tuning Globally

Microsoft announced three new proprietary models in Azure Foundry: MAI-Transcribe-1 with 3.9% word error rate across 25 languages, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2 ranking #3 on Arena.ai. Foundry Fine-Tuning expanded o4-mini training across 13+ Azure regions with reduced per-token rates.