image generation

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...

Microsoft’s new MAI‑Image‑1 lands as a clear statement: Microsoft AI intends to build its own image‑generation stack and ship it into Copilot and Bing rather than depend entirely on partner models — and the company is using public, human‑preference leaderboards to prove the point. Background...

Microsoft’s MAI‑Image‑1 is the clearest signal yet that the company has moved from being mainly a distributor of third‑party models to a serious, product‑driven creator of in‑house generative AI, announcing a first‑party text‑to‑image engine built for photorealism, speed, and productivity...

Microsoft’s MAI‑Image‑1 represents a clear inflection point: the company has shipped its first fully in‑house text‑to‑image model and is positioning it as a product‑grade, photorealism‑focused engine built for speed, workflow integration, and enterprise control. Background Microsoft’s MAI...

Microsoft’s MAI-Image-1 arrives as a clear declaration: Microsoft will build its own image-generation stack, and it wants that stack to be fast, photorealistic, and tightly integrated into the company’s product ecosystem. Overview On October 13, Microsoft announced MAI-Image-1, the company’s...

Microsoft's MAI-Image-1 has quietly signaled a major shift in how the company plans to deliver generative image capabilities: an in‑house, photorealism‑focused text‑to‑image model that Microsoft is already testing publicly on LMArena and intends to fold into Copilot and Bing Image Creator in the...

Microsoft has introduced MAI‑Image‑1, its first image‑generation model built entirely in‑house, a move Microsoft says prioritizes photorealism, speed, and workflow fit for creators while preparing the model for near‑term integration into Copilot and Bing Image Creator. Background Microsoft’s...

Microsoft’s new MAI‑Image‑1 landed as a surprise — not for the novelty of another image generator, but because it’s a fully in‑house text‑to‑image system from Microsoft AI that already ranks among the top models on public leaderboards and is being lined up for integration into Copilot and Bing...

Microsoft’s MAI-Image-1 is the company’s first wholly in‑house text‑to‑image generator, positioned as a photorealism‑focused, low‑latency model built to slot into Copilot and Bing Image Creator — but the announcement raises as many practical and governance questions as it answers about...

Microsoft has announced MAI-Image-1, its first fully in-house text-to-image model, and begun public testing on benchmarking platforms while preparing integrations into Copilot and Bing Image Creator—an important step in Microsoft’s move from relying primarily on third‑party models to building...

Microsoft is embedding Copilot Chat directly into the Microsoft 365 desktop apps — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote — as a persistent, content‑aware sidebar that brings AI assistance to the place people actually work, reducing copy/paste, manual uploads, and app switching while...

Microsoft is weaving its AI assistant deeper into the Office experience by rolling Copilot Chat and agent capabilities directly into core Microsoft 365 apps — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote — bringing a unified, in-context chat pane and a raft of new tools aimed at turning an AI...

A playful name and a deceptively simple prompt have pushed Google’s Gemini “Nano Banana” into the center of a new viral wave: users are turning ordinary selfies into hyper‑realistic miniature figurines, packaging mockups and even short animated clips with only a handful of words. The trend has...

xAI’s decision to plant an engineering flag in Seattle this week marks a consequential expansion for Elon Musk’s fast-moving AI startup—one that arrives at the intersection of talent, cloud partnerships, and high-profile litigation that together will shape how Grok and xAI compete in the...

Microsoft’s Copilot has evolved from a curious chatbot experiment into a sprawling, multi-surface productivity platform that now sits in Windows, Edge, mobile apps, Microsoft 365 and Azure tooling — and its capabilities span conversational drafting, multimodal image and audio generation, in‑app...

The AI you keep open in a browser tab is doing more than answering queries — it's broadcasting something about how you think, what you value, and how you want the world to work. A recent cultural riff that maps people to their preferred models — from OpenAI’s GPT‑5 users to xAI’s Grok fans and...

Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT have both pushed generative AI into everyday workflows, but they take markedly different approaches to features, ecosystem integration, pricing, and privacy — and those differences matter when deciding which assistant to use for research, creative work...

Microsoft Copilot is now a practical, multi-platform AI companion that can draft documents, summarize threads, generate images, read your screen, and act on your behalf — but getting the most from it takes more than a casual prompt. This guide explains what Copilot is, how to sign up (including...

Bria’s collaboration with Microsoft for Startups has done more than add a logo to a partner page — it has plugged a responsible, developer-first visual generative AI into Azure’s ecosystem, giving startups a practical path to scale image generation, editing, and brand-safe visual pipelines while...