Microsoft AI announces first image generator created in-house

Microsoft AI conscionable announced its archetypal text-to-image generator, MAI-Image-1, designed and developed in-house. The tech giant, which precocious announced its first in-house Microsoft AI models, called the caller representation generator “the adjacent measurement connected our journey.”

Microsoft says it sought feedback from originative professionals successful bid to debar “repetitive oregon generically-stylized outputs.” MAI-Image-1 “excels” astatine photorealistic imagery similar lightning, landscapes, and more, the institution claims. And it tin process requests and nutrient images faster than “larger, slower models.” The exemplary has already secured a spot successful the apical 10 of LMArena, the AI benchmark tract wherever humans comparison outputs from antithetic systems and ballot connected the champion one. 

MAI-Image-1 joins Microsoft’s different AI products, dependable generator MAI-Voice-1 AI and chatbot MAI-1-preview. The institution was an aboriginal funder of OpenAI, but the 2 companies’ narration has grown progressively complicated. Microsoft has besides started to use Anthropic’s AI models for immoderate features successful Microsoft 365 recently, and is making “significant investments” successful grooming its ain AI models similar MAI-Image-1.

We haven’t had a accidental to trial Microsoft’s caller representation generator, but erstwhile we person we’ll study backmost connected its information guardrails. The institution says it’s committed to “ensuring harmless and liable outcomes.”