MAI‑Image‑1 puts Microsoft in the AI art game – this time, with its own brush

MAI-Image-1.

• Microsoft has launched MAI‑Image‑1, its first in-house text-to-image model
• The model focuses on speed, photorealism, and flexibility, aiming to avoid repetitive visual tropes
• MAI-Image-I is coming soon to Copilot and Bing

Microsoft has just introduced MAI‑Image‑1, its first in-house text-to-image generator. By building the model in-house, Microsoft is staking a new claim, competing not only with industry heavyweights like Google’s Nano Banana and Midjourney, but also with its otherwise very close partner, OpenAI’s own line of AI image models.