Voice can be one of the most direct and productive interfaces for AI — enabling customer support agents that may resolve issues without a single keystroke, live multilingual communication that can ta...

This week Microsoft Foundry adds two major model families alongside a reasoning powerhouse that spans the full spectrum from specialized speech and vision to general-purpose coding and long-context a...

OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Instant (or Chat-latest in the API) begins rolling out in Microsoft Foundry today as GPT-chat-latest. Built on GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.3-chat, the new model delivers measurable gains in fa...

As AI adoption matures, the conversation is shifting from model capability to system design, how to orchestrate models that deliver the right balance of quality, speed, and cost.  Today, we’re expa...

Real-time speech recognition has always been defined by a fundamental trade-off: speed versus accuracy. Applications that need instant, streaming transcription — live captions, voice agents, real-tim...

We are thrilled to announce that Voice Live API now supports WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communication) connection, enabling low‑latency, real‑time voice interactions directly from web and mobile clients. ...

The architectural problem In any non-trivial GenAI platform, you end up managing a fleet of models. Cheap models for classification and light chat. Reasoning models for multi-step tasks. Frontier m...

The problem I wanted to explore Most agentic AI systems today follow a familiar pattern: you design the workflow, you decide which agents exist, you wire the communication between them. That works ...

Enterprise teams building AI agents often need to route model requests through their own infrastructure — whether for compliance, governance, or other controls provided by gateways. Today, we are exc...