Microsoft launched its own model of visualization in Bing and Copilot

Microsoft has made its first in-house image generator artificial intelligence, MAI-Image-1, which it announced last month, now available in two products, Bing Image Creator and Copilot Audio Expressions.

According to Mustafa Suleiman, CEO of Microsoft AI, the MAI-Image-1 model excels in producing images of food, nature scenes, artistic lighting and photorealistic details, and users can now use it in Bing and Copilot. However, this text-to-image model is not yet available in the European Union.

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Microsoft had already published the details of this model on its blog; MAI-Image-1 excels at producing photorealistic images, such as lighting, landscapes, and more. In addition to the quality, the speed of this model is high and users can depict or edit their ideas with the highest quality and in the fastest possible time.

The model can now generate artwork for AI-generated audio stories in “story mode” on Copilot’s text-to-speech platform, Copilot Audio Expressions.

In general, the release of this model is Microsoft’s latest step towards self-sufficiency and reducing reliance on foreign partners. In August, the company unveiled its first internal models: the speech model MAI-Voice-1 and the text model MAI-1-preview.

At the time, Microsoft announced that it planned to use MAI-1-preview in certain cases in its Copilot assistant; A sign that Microsoft is moving away from its complete reliance on OpenAI models.

However, this move does not mean the end of cooperation. At the same time, Microsoft has announced that the Copilot chatbot is moving to the latest OpenAI model, GPT-5, and also offers users Claude models from Anthropic as an option.

MAI-Image-1 is currently listed as one of the three AI models available on the Bing Image Creator website and app. The other two models, DALL-E 3 and GPT-4o, are owned by OpenAI.