mai-image-2

Microsoft’s latest push into in-house generative AI marks a sharper turn in its platform strategy. The company is reportedly advancing MAI-Image-2, a text-to-image model that aims to compete at the top of public leaderboards while giving Microsoft more control over how image generation works...

Microsoft’s latest AI image generator is a meaningful step forward for the company, but it also lands in an awkward place: good enough to show progress, yet not good enough to dominate the leaderboard narrative. MAI-Image-2 is positioned as a realism-first model built for creatives, and...