# Microsoft: what I've logged

> Microsoft comes up in 3 posts of my AI log, from November 2025 to October 2026, and each item below links to the primary source. The releases I logged include Microsoft-Decision-1, VibeVoice and Fara-7B, filed under frontier, open weights and image, video, world.

## Items

1. **Microsoft-Decision-1** (Microsoft, 5 Oct 2026): A Qwen3.5-9B model post-trained for decision scoring that writes no text and returns a probability for yes/no, choice and score questions. [Primary source](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/foundry-models/how-to/use-foundry-models-microsoft-decision) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-10-05-week-in-ai#item-6)
2. **VibeVoice** (Microsoft, 19 Jan 2026): Microsoft's open voice project added an ASR model that handles long recordings with speaker labels. [Primary source](https://github.com/microsoft/VibeVoice) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-01-19-week-in-ai#item-4)
3. **Fara-7B** (Microsoft, 24 Nov 2025): A 7B open model built to operate a computer, small enough to run locally. [Primary source](https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Fara-7B) · [Post](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2025-11-24-week-in-ai#item-6)

## Posts

- 2026-10-05 [Mistral Large 4, Claude Haiku 5.5 and a wave of decision models](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-10-05-week-in-ai)
- 2026-01-19 [GLM-4.7-Flash, Qwen3-TTS opens up, and Claude's new constitution](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2026-01-19-week-in-ai)
- 2025-11-24 [Claude Opus 4.5, FLUX.2, and a wave of strong open releases](https://heyaliasif.com/ai/2025-11-24-week-in-ai)

Canonical: https://heyaliasif.com/ai/topics/microsoft