https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/companies/microsoft/ Dated, sourced news items in the USASI catalog that mention Microsoft. Independent project. Not a United States government website. en-us Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/news/nvidia-contributes-vera-rubin-designs-to-ocp/ https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/news/nvidia-contributes-vera-rubin-designs-to-ocp/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT governance 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. https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/news/onnx-runtime-cuda-plugin-ep-0-3-0-released/ https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/news/onnx-runtime-cuda-plugin-ep-0-3-0-released/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT release 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. https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/news/onnx-runtime-1-31-0-released/ https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/news/onnx-runtime-1-31-0-released/ Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT release 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 in GatherBlockQuantized now 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. https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/news/microsoft-ai-releases-mai-transcribe-2-streaming-and-mai-voice-2-1/ https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/news/microsoft-ai-releases-mai-transcribe-2-streaming-and-mai-voice-2-1/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT release 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. https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/news/microsoft-releases-rho-robot-models/ https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/news/microsoft-releases-rho-robot-models/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT research 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. https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/news/microsoft-ai-opens-consultation-on-mai-code-of-conduct/ https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/news/microsoft-ai-opens-consultation-on-mai-code-of-conduct/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT governance On September 14, 2026 Microsoft AI published a first draft of a Code of Conduct for its MAI models, which it describes as a training manual for how it develops its models and how they are meant to behave in deployment. The draft sets out "Absolute Constraints" in areas such as weapons of mass harm, child safety, and harmful manipulation at scale, along with defaults that enterprise partners can configure. Microsoft AI opened a six-week public consultation on the draft the same day, and says it will then publish a summary of what it learned and changed and release a revised version later in 2026. The page does not give an exact closing date for comments. https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/news/onnx-runtime-1-30-0-released/ https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/news/onnx-runtime-1-30-0-released/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT release Microsoft's ONNX Runtime project published version 1.30.0 on GitHub on September 10, 2026. The release notes highlight Go bindings for the ONNX Runtime C API, expanded CUDA inference support including speculative decoding in paged XQA and INT4 paged KV caches, WebGPU PagedAttention improvements with GPT-OSS support, and fused CPU LinearAttention kernels for AVX-512, Arm64 NEON, and SVE. The notes say FP4 QMoE kernels are now enabled by default in CUDA builds, and they list hardening of model loading and input validation. USASI has not tested this release. https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/news/microsoft-releases-vibevoice-asr-streaming/ https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/news/microsoft-releases-vibevoice-asr-streaming/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT release The news log in Microsoft's VibeVoice repository lists the release of VibeVoice-ASR-Streaming on September 3, 2026, describing it as a unified streaming ASR model that continuously transcribes who said what as speech arrives, with support for customized hotwords and 10 languages. The Hugging Face card for VibeVoice-ASR-Streaming-7B names the languages as Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish, and says the project is licensed under the MIT License. A technical report on the model was submitted to arXiv on September 2, 2026. USASI has not tested VibeVoice-ASR-Streaming. https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/news/microsoft-ai-releases-mai-thinking-1/ https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/news/microsoft-ai-releases-mai-thinking-1/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT release On August 12, 2026 Microsoft AI introduced MAI-Thinking-1, a reasoning model from its Superintelligence team, and made it available in public preview on Microsoft Foundry. The announcement describes a sparse mixture-of-experts model with 35B active and about 1T total parameters, a 256k-token context window, and function calling, and says it is compatible with the Chat Completions API. Microsoft AI says it did not distill the model from other labs' models and that safety training runs in the same reinforcement learning loop as capability training. The post does not say that the weights are released. USASI has not tested MAI-Thinking-1. https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/news/agent-plugins-1-0-0-specification-published/ https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/news/agent-plugins-1-0-0-specification-published/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT governance On August 6, 2026 Vercel announced Agent Plugins 1.0.0, an open, vendor-neutral specification for packaging extensions for AI agents so that one plugin format works across compatible clients. A plugin is a directory with a plugin.json manifest and fixed locations for its components, with Agent Skills under skills/ and MCP server configuration in mcp.json. Vercel says it initiated the proposal, that representatives from AWS, Anysphere, GitHub, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Vercel refined it into version 1.0.0, and that the initial Technical Steering Committee includes core maintainers from AWS, Cursor, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Vercel. ChatGPT and Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Kiro, and VS Code are listed as supported at launch. https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/news/microsoft-announces-genesis-mission-commitment-spark/ https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/news/microsoft-announces-genesis-mission-commitment-spark/ Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT policy On July 22, 2026 Microsoft announced a long-term commitment to the Department of Energy's Genesis Mission, centered on SPARK (Scientific Partnership Advancing Research & Knowledge), a new program office that Microsoft calls the single front door and coordination hub for Genesis Mission collaboration with the company. The commitment includes access to Microsoft Discovery, which Microsoft says is now generally available, and Microsoft says Azure capabilities will help extend DOE's American Science Cloud. Microsoft describes four of the first projects under the partnership, with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, and Idaho National Laboratory, covering work from energy storage materials to nuclear licensing.