Microsoft’s Decision-1 scores a fixed set of answers instead of writing text, at $0.042 per million input tokens, while Google’s new Gemini thinking levels let users and developers dial reasoning effort to Low, Medium or High. We explain both launches, check Microsoft’s benchmark claims against H2O.ai’s objections and an earlier version of its own blog post, and work through what each option costs.
Microsoft has added three audio models to MAI Playground: MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming for real-time transcription and the MAI-Voice-2.1 and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash text-to-speech models, plus a voice assistant demo called Chatter. We cover what each model does and costs, how the streaming model ranks on Artificial Analysis, how fast Microsoft’s voice line has moved and what UK developers should check.
AIxploria listed MAI-Transcribe-2 at 04:12 UTC on 14 September 2026 with a 4.4 rating from five votes, a Free tag and a badge reading “#25 in Transcriber”. We tested the badge against the directory’s own category pages, checked 30 items on the card against Microsoft’s launch post, model page, Azure documentation and the Artificial Analysis leaderboard, and measured where the card appears. Sixteen items match, but the #25 slot belongs to Whisper Large V3 Turbo, the Free tag contradicts the card’s own FAQ, and the review gets the diarization defaults and file limit wrong while leaving out a 15-minute ceiling.
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