Organization
Microsoft
Microsoft is an AI model developer and research lab headquartered in Redmond, Washington1. This catalog lists 4 open model releases and 6 software projects from Microsoft, under licenses including the MIT License and the Apache License 2.0.
Documented roles: Model developer · Research lab · Cloud provider · Enterprise software · Developer platform · Consumer products
Microsoft develops and sells software, cloud services, and devices. Its AI offerings include the Microsoft Foundry platform on Azure, Copilot assistants, and models developed in-house, including the Phi family of small language models and MAI models.1245
Using this organization’s offerings
Intended users
Microsoft describes Foundry as serving organizations that build AI solutions, from start-ups and software vendors to data science, IT, and security teams. It presents Phi as small models that let developers run AI on devices without cloud connectivity.812
Hosted and self-hosted access
Foundry can be explored without an Azure account, but building agents requires an Azure subscription, and each model or service is billed at its own rate. MAI models such as MAI-Thinking-1 are listed as preview models sold by Azure, while Phi models are also published on Hugging Face and Ollama.891112
Restrictions and review limits
Foundry separates models sold by Azure, which Microsoft supports under Azure service-level agreements, from partner and community models. Phi model cards such as Phi-4 state the MIT License and advise evaluation before high-risk uses. This profile is not a complete product or rights audit.111312
Documentation and pricing
Key facts
What is and isn’t public
Products
Hosted model products
Labeled Hosted product/API — this describes how a documented product is delivered (hosted access). It does not determine whether underlying weights or code are open; assess the specific release and its licenses.
| Product | Kind | Documented delivery and access | Reviewed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Copilot (external site: microsoft.com) | Assistant app | AI assistant available through the Copilot mobile app and inside Microsoft 365 apps; Microsoft 365 individual subscription plans include Copilot features, with usage limits that vary by plan.3 | Sep 29, 2026 |
Other products
| Product | Kind | Documented delivery and access | Reviewed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Foundry (external site: azure.microsoft.com) | Cloud platform | Azure platform for building AI applications and agents, with a catalog of models from Microsoft and other providers; building agents requires an Azure subscription, and pricing depends on the services used.2 | Sep 29, 2026 |
Cataloged artifacts
Model families
- Microsoft Florence-2Model family
- Muse (Microsoft Research WHAM)Model family
- PhiModel family
Model releases
- Florence-2-largeModel releaseAvailability: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.2): Open-weight
- Phi-4-mini-flash-reasoningModel releaseAvailability: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.2): Open-weight
- Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15BModel releaseAvailability: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.2): Open-weight
- WHAM 1.6B (Muse)Model releaseAvailability: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.2): Open-weight
Frameworks
- AutoGenSoftwareAvailability: Public
- DeepSpeedSoftwareAvailability: Public
- MarkItDownSoftwareAvailability: Public
- ONNX (Open Neural Network Exchange)SoftwareAvailability: Public
Runtimes
- bitnet.cpp (BitNet inference framework)SoftwareAvailability: Public
- ONNX RuntimeSoftwareAvailability: Public
Organizational relationships
Notable documented facts
- Microsoft publishes Phi models on Hugging Face and Microsoft Foundry, and its Phi product page states that Phi models are available under the MIT License.4
- Microsoft AI announced two in-house models, MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview, in August 2025, describing MAI-1-preview as its first foundation model trained end-to-end. They were made available through Copilot features, Copilot Labs, public testing, and API access for trusted testers; the announcement did not include downloadable weights.5
- Microsoft Research released Muse, a World and Human Action Model (WHAM) for gameplay ideation, with weights and sample data in February 2025.6
In the news
NVIDIA contributes Vera Rubin rack and compute tray designs to the Open Compute Project
In an October 12, 2026 blog post tied to the OCP Global Summit, NVIDIA said it contributed Vera Rubin rack and compute tray designs to the Open Compute Project through its MGX architecture. The post says NVIDIA joined AMD, Google, and Meta at OCP to publish a new open specification, and describes the Open Data Center Specification v0.7 as a blueprint for AI factory facility design. It says the OCP Grid Resilience Specification was published by Google, Meta, Microsoft, and NVIDIA, and that NVIDIA expanded DSX OS with open-source components for configuring networks and validating clusters, without naming a license for them. USASI has not reviewed the contributed designs or specifications.
ONNX Runtime CUDA Plugin EP 0.3.0 adds sparse attention and INT2 QMoE support
On October 9, 2026 Microsoft published version 0.3.0 of the ONNX Runtime CUDA Plugin EP on the ONNX Runtime GitHub repository. This is a separate release from ONNX Runtime 1.31.0, which the notes give as the matched core version. The release notes list sparse attention and packed continuous-batching support, INT2 and mixed-width QMoE execution, new QSA/CSA attention operators, expanded paged speculative decoding, and opt-in MatMul auto-tuning. The notes warn that the core and the plugin must use the same contributed-operator schemas and recommend building both from the same ONNX Runtime revision. USASI has not tested this release.
ONNX Runtime 1.31.0 released with stable model-package and EPContext data APIs
On October 9, 2026 Microsoft published ONNX Runtime 1.31.0 on GitHub. The release notes say the model-package API and EPContext data callbacks were promoted to stable C and C++ APIs, and that CoreML can now take part in device-based execution-provider selection, including Apple Neural Engine selection through
PREFER_NPU. The notes also announce that the ACL execution provider is deprecated, that out-of-range indices inGatherBlockQuantizednow produce zero output slices, and that supported native builds now default to 1DS telemetry, which can be disabled with--no_telemetry. The ONNX dependency stays at 1.22.0. USASI has not tested these changes.Microsoft AI releases MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming and MAI-Voice-2.1 speech models
Microsoft AI announced three speech models on October 1, 2026. MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming is a real-time transcription model that Microsoft says covers 60 languages with automatic, continuous language detection. MAI-Voice-2.1 is a multilingual text-to-speech model that Microsoft says supports 23 languages and 26 locales, and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash is described as a faster variant with the same languages and features. Microsoft lists Microsoft Foundry, MAI Playground, and Vercel among the places all three can be used. The announcement does not mention published weights or a license.
Microsoft Research publishes Rho, open-weight vision-language-action models for robots
Microsoft Research published the technical report for Rho on September 29, 2026. Rho is a family of vision-language-action models of about 5 billion parameters for two-armed robot manipulation, combining a Phi-family vision-language backbone with an action module. The models include a base model and checkpoints adapted to three robot platforms (I2RT YAM Box, Universal Robots UR AI Trainer, and Franka FR3 Duo). Their weights are on Hugging Face and the fine-tuning and adaptation code is on GitHub, both under the MIT license.
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U.S. eligibility
Eligible · basis: U.S. headquarters
Microsoft Corporation is incorporated in Washington and lists One Microsoft Way, Redmond, Washington as its address on the cover page of its Form 10-K for fiscal year 2026.1
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