this is the closest thing to cheating i've found in ai Microsoft just launched mai-transcribe-2, and the numbers undercut openai, google, and elevenlabs simultaneously. 2.0% word error rate, second on the independent artificial analysis leaderboard. 411x real-time speed, also second, roughly 10x faster than openai's gpt-transcribe, 7x faster than elevenlabs scribe v2, 5x faster than google's gemini 3.5 transcribe. $1.67 per 1,000 minutes. 60 languages on fleurs. sitting at both ends of the accuracy-speed frontier at once is rare. doing it at this price is rarer.(CyrilXBT)