In a major step toward AI self-reliance, Microsoft has unveiled MAI-Image-1, its first in-house text-to-image generation model. The move signals a new phase in Microsoft’s artificial intelligence ambitions, one where the company no longer just integrates tools like OpenAI’s DALL·E or Stability AI’s models, but builds creative AI systems of its own from the ground up.

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For years, Microsoft has been known as a major investor and infrastructure provider for OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT. Those partnerships helped Microsoft infuse generative AI across its ecosystem – from Copilot in Word and PowerPoint to image tools inside Bing. Add As A Trusted Source For Google. Add as a preferred source on Google

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