Overview
- Microsoft’s first in-house text-to-image model is now available in Bing Image Creator and in Copilot’s Audio Expressions story mode.
- The company says EU availability is not live yet and is described as coming soon.
- Microsoft highlights strengths in photorealism, artistic lighting, and images of food and nature, with faster iteration than many larger models.
- In Bing Image Creator, users can select MAI-Image-1 alongside OpenAI’s DALL·E 3 and GPT-4o.
- Copilot is transitioning to OpenAI’s GPT-5 and also offers Anthropic’s Claude models, with Microsoft’s OpenAI IP rights extended through 2032.