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Microsoft has officially launched its first AI image generator developed in-house - MAI-Image-1. The model is now available in the Bing Image Creation tool and the Copilot audio expression platform. Mustafa Suleiman, Microsoft's AI chief, stated on the social media platform X that the model will be launched in the European region soon.
MAI-Image-1 excels particularly in generating images of food and natural scenes, and it also performs exceptionally well in artistic lighting and photo-realistic details. According to Microsoft's blog, MAI-Image-1 is skilled at generating realistic images, including light effects (such as reflected light and scattered light) and landscapes. Compared to many large and slow models, this generator combines speed and quality, allowing users to quickly bring their ideas to the screen and rapidly iterate, then transfer the work to other tools for further optimization.
Additionally, MAI-Image-1 will provide illustrations for AI-generated audio stories in the "Story Mode" of the text-to-speech platform in Copilot. In August, Microsoft had already announced the launch of its first in-house AI models, including the voice model MAI-Voice-1 and the text model MAI-1-preview. At that time, the company stated its plan to apply the MAI-1-preview in its Copilot AI assistant under certain unspecified conditions, indicating that Microsoft is gradually reducing its reliance on OpenAI models.
As of now, Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is gradually transitioning to OpenAI's latest GPT-5 model, and also offers the Claude AI model from Anthropic as an option for users. Currently, MAI-Image-1 is listed as one of the three AI models on the Bing Image Creation website and app, with the other two models being DALL-E3 and GPT-4o from OpenAI.
Access point: https://www.bing.com/images/create
Key points:
🌟 Microsoft has launched its own AI image generator MAI-Image-1, which is now available in Bing and Copilot.
🍔 MAI-Image-1 is especially good at generating images of food and natural scenes, and it performs well in light effects.
🔄 Microsoft's Copilot is gradually shifting to use its own AI models, reducing dependence on OpenAI.