image generation

Windows 11’s Copilot now makes it trivial to turn a text idea into a ready-to-use image — whether you want a photorealistic slide illustration, a stylized cover for a report, or a quick concept sketch — and you can do it from the dedicated Copilot app, inside Microsoft Word, or from other...

A late‑night joke, a crowd‑sourced testbed and a sticky bit of internet serendipity combined to turn a throwaway codename into one of the most recognizable labels in consumer image AI: Nano Banana—the nickname that followed Google’s Gemini image model from anonymous LM Arena entries to mass...

OpenAI’s Sora 2 makes it remarkably easy to turn a short home video into a tiny cinematic — and a recent hands‑on test that used the tool to generate cameo clips of a pet cat shows both how magical and how delicate that power can be. The experiment produced photorealistic, lip‑synced short...

PCMag’s recent roundup of “The Best AI Image Generators for 2026” captures a pragmatic shift in the market: image-generation models are no longer a niche play for hobbyists, they’re now full-featured, web-accessible services tuned for real creative workflows — but those same conveniences bring...

PCMag Australia’s roundup of “The Best AI Image Generators for 2026” captures a practical moment in a fast-moving market: a small set of feature-rich, web-accessible services now dominates everyday creative workflows, but the real story is about trade-offs — integration, moderation, provenance...

Free is no longer a dirty word in AI: you can try powerful GPT chat models and image-generation tools without handing over a credit card, but the trade-offs between speed, capability, and limits are real and evolving. Background The quick roundup from Observer Voice naming five places to try...

WhatsApp’s latest update nudges the app toward a new identity: less a simple chat client and more a multimedia-first communications hub — starting with a reinvention of voicemail, tighter AI controls, and freshly expanded image-generation tools that together reshape how billions talk, trade, and...

Apple’s Image Playground — the image-creation component of Apple Intelligence — has quietly become the most compelling consumer-grade image AI for many everyday users because of three practical advantages: deep OS integration, a privacy-first processing model that prioritizes on-device work and...

AI is easier to use than most people think — you can start with a single natural‑language sentence and quickly turn it into polished text, images, short videos, summaries, or working code — but using AI well requires a few disciplined habits and an awareness of the risks. Background Modern...

Google’s Nano Banana, OpenAI’s GPT‑4o image mode, Midjourney V7, Seedream 4.0, Ideogram 3.0 and a handful of newer specialist models have reshaped the AI image landscape in 2025 — not just by improving fidelity, but by turning image editing into a conversational, iterative workflow that can fit...

AI-driven image generation is reshaping how instructors prepare slides, how researchers illustrate concepts, and how universities present findings—moving visual pedagogy from ad‑hoc illustration to on‑demand, data‑aware visual reasoning that can be produced, iterated, and integrated in minutes...

Google has pushed Gemini onto the iPhone, delivering the company’s most ambitious mobile AI toolkit — voice-first conversations with Gemini Live, premium image and video generation, and a new Extensions/Workspace integration that folds Gmail, YouTube, Drive and other Google services into single...

Google’s image generation pipeline appears poised for another rapid iteration: early leak signals and a flurry of community testing point to a second-generation “Nano Banana 2” (internal codename GEMPIX 2) surfacing in Media AI and in Gemini UI experiments, promising native 2K output, multi‑step...

Microsoft has quietly begun rolling out MAI-Image-1 — its first image-generation model built entirely in-house — into consumer-facing products, marking a clear strategic shift toward owning more of the generative-AI stack that powers Copilot and Bing features. Background / Overview Microsoft...

A single, tongue-in-cheek experiment — a Daily Mail screenshot fed into Microsoft Copilot and prompted to imagine “what Elon Musk would look like without hair transplants or weight‑loss drugs” — has become a flashpoint for two much bigger conversations: the limits and liabilities of AI image...

Microsoft’s new in‑house image model landed with a splash: MAI‑Image‑1 is already available inside Bing Image Creator and Copilot, it placed among the top models on public leaderboards, and early testers are finding the results fast, photoreal and surprisingly polished for a first release...

Microsoft’s MAI‑Image‑1 has quietly gone from preview to product: Microsoft now offers a homegrown text‑to‑image model inside Bing Image Creator and Copilot, positioning a fast, photorealism‑focused generator alongside existing options such as OpenAI’s DALL·E 3 and GPT‑4o and signaling a...

Microsoft’s MAI-Image-1 landed as a clear product‑first play: a photorealism‑focused, low‑latency text‑to‑image model built entirely in‑house and already rolling into Bing Image Creator and Copilot’s Audio Expressions, signaling Microsoft’s intent to own more of the generative-AI stack while...

Microsoft says designers no longer need to learn every menu in every app — a few smart prompts to Copilot can jump‑start a mood board, produce logo drafts, and iterate layouts until a usable concept appears, all from the browser or the free Copilot app. Background Microsoft’s consumer‑facing...

Graphic design is changing faster than many of us expected, and Microsoft is making a very public play to put AI squarely at the center of a modern designer’s toolkit with Copilot — an always-available companion that promises to speed ideation, generate polished assets, and bridge the gap...