Microsoft's MAI-Transcribe now handles 61% of all transcription on OpenRouter

mustafasuleyman · x · 2026-10-16

Mustafa Suleyman claims MAI-Transcribe is the most accurate and most-used transcription model on OpenRouter across languages and use cases. OpenRouter data shows MAI-Transcribe 2, launched in early September, climbing to 61% of all characters transcribed by the week of Oct 12 (13B chars/week), well ahead of Whisper V3 Turbo and Scribe v2.

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