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Microsoft AI’s MAI-Transcribe-2 undercuts OpenAI, Google and ElevenLabs on price and speed

That figure deserves a pause. When Microsoft AI shipped the first model in this line just five months ago, it charged $0.36 an hour. Thursday's early-bird price cuts that by roughly 72%. For an enterprise processing 100,000 hours of call-center audio a year — a modest volume for a large bank or telecom — the bill drops from $36,000 to $10,000. At that level, transcription stops being a line item anyone argues about.

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VB Transform 2026

Zendesk's 20 Billion Conversation Problem

Agentic infrastructure: How legacy stacks create the bottleneck to AI autonomy Multi-agent systems fail in production if the infrastructure underneath them isn't designed for autonomous, long-running loops. Token costs compound across chained tasks, latency bottlenecks surface inside orchestration layers, and agents drift from their original intent with no mechanism to catch this drift before downstream damage is done. This panel brings together agentic AI leaders who have moved past first-generation agentic deployments to deconstruct four key drivers of success: Inference Economics: How teams are managing cost-per-task in long-running agentic loops, including where speculative decoding and purpose-built small language models actually reduce spend versus where they add complexity. Physical Infrastructure decisions: Compute density, storage, memory, GPUs, inference processing units Orchestration Design: When a central master agent creates a single point of failure versus when a decentralized mesh or hybrid approach introduces coordination overhead and how to make that call based on your workload. Governance at the Infrastructure Layer: How teams are embedding rate limits, kill switches, and audit trails directly into the infrastructure stack to contain runaway API calls and prevent cascading failures before they reach production users.

VB Transform 2026

220 Million Miles. Zero Driver.

VB Transform 2026 Highlights Intelligence at Scale: How Waymo Builds Safe, Efficient AI for the Physical World The Waymo Driver represents the most mature application of AI operating in the physical world. With over 200 million fully autonomous miles driven and an expansion plan for 20+ cities, the company’s pioneering work serves as a roadmap for how to build AI systems that are reliable and safe, even in the most unpredictable scenarios. In this session, Waymo’s director of systems intelligence and machine learning, Manasi Joshi, reveals the key engineering approaches behind their operation and how data systems are improving Waymo's already exemplary safety record. This session will provide lessons for technology leaders in all industry verticals who are scaling their own agentic deployments.

VB Transform 2026

The 'Two Poisons' Problem in AI Testing

VB Transform 2026 Highlights LLM-as-a-judge vs. human-in-the-loop oversight: The great debate on model validation As agents move from prototype to production, the evaluation bottleneck has become one of the biggest hurdles. Can we truly trust an LLM to grade another LLM, or are we simply building a hall of mirrors? In this session, panelists weigh all sides of model validation, testing and putting trusted agents into production. They’ll get into the necessity of LLM-as-a-judge for real-time, automated observability at scale vs. the real world challenges of poor agent responses and the indispensable role of golden-set validation and human-in-the-loop oversight.

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