Microsoft debuts its first in-house AI picture generator

Microsoft is constant to roll out in-house AI fashions, additional lowering its reliance on long-standing partnership with OpenAI. Right this moment, the corporate launched MAI-Picture-1, its first internally-developed image-generating AI mannequin. In accordance with the blog post, MAI-Picture-1 is especially good for creating photorealistic outcomes, and may generate pure lighting and landscapes. For now, the mannequin is being examined on LMArena, and Microsoft mentioned it plans to roll out MAI-Picture-1 to Copilot and its Bing Picture Creator “very quickly.” 

Over the summer season, Microsoft made its first break from collaborating with OpenAI when it unveiled its first two in-house educated fashions, MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview. At the moment, Microsoft AI division chief Mustafa Suleyman mentioned in an interview that the corporate had “an unlimited five-year roadmap that we’re investing in quarter after quarter.” Thus far, it is at the least setting a strong clip of releases.