Microsoft Ai’s First In-house Image Generator Mai-image-1 Is Now Available

Microsoft’s first in-house AI image generator, MAI-Image-1, is now available successful 2 products, Bing Image Creator and Copilot Audio Expressions. The institution announced nan exemplary successful October. Microsoft AI main Mustafa Suleyman wrote successful a post connected X that nan text-to-image exemplary will beryllium “coming soon” to nan EU. 

Suleyman added that nan exemplary “really excels at” generating images of nutrient and quality scenes, arsenic good arsenic artsy lighting and photorealistic detail.

Microsoft has antecedently posted much specifications connected its blog: “MAI-Image-1 excels astatine generating photorealistic imagery, for illustration lighting (e.g., bounce light, reflections), landscapes, and overmuch more. This is peculiarly truthful erstwhile compared to galore larger, slower models. Its operation of velocity and value intends users tin get their ideas connected surface faster, iterate done them quickly, and past transportation their activity to different devices to proceed refining.”

Microsoft’s MAI-Image-1 will besides create AI-generated creation to travel AI-generated audio stories successful nan “story mode” of Copilot’s text-to-speech platform, Copilot Audio Expressions.

In August, Microsoft announced their first in-house AI models – nan reside exemplary MAI-Voice-1 and nan text-based exemplary MAI-1-preview. At nan time, nan institution said it planned to usage MAI-1-preview successful its Copilot AI adjunct successful definite unspecified cases, a motion that Microsoft mightiness beryllium pivoting distant from its reliance connected OpenAI’s models. As of today, Microsoft says that its Copilot chatbot is transitioning to OpenAI’s latest exemplary GPT-5, while besides offering Anthropic’s Claude AI models arsenic options to users. 

MAI-Image-1 is listed arsenic 1 of nan 3 AI models disposable connected Bing’s image creator website and app. The different 2 models, DALL-E 3 and GPT-4o, are from OpenAI.