Microsoft’s very own AI image generation model, MAI-Image-1, is starting to show up in a few products online. MAI-Image-1 is the company’s first image generation model developed “entirely in-house” and debuted on LMArena’s text-to-image leaderboard within the top ten, just a couple of spots behind ChatGPT’s equivalent model.

The Copilot team at Microsoft has been pretty busy lately. Last week, the team announced that Copilot is now built into Windows 11, so you can just strike up a conversation by saying “Hey Copilot”. It’s clear that not everyone is a fan of the AI assistant, but for those who embrace artificial intelligence, this is obviously a milestone addition.

Microsoft AI’s image generation is available in Copilot Labs and Bing

Announced earlier today, Microsoft is essentially rolling out the MAI-Image-1 model and has now implemented it into a couple of its products. First stop is Copilot Labs, which is where you’ll find Microsoft’s latest AI experiments and initiatives.

We have begun launching MAI-Image-1 into select Microsoft products! MAI-Image-1, our first image generation model developed entirely in-house at Microsoft AI, debuted in the top 10 text-to-image models on LMArena.

Try it now in Copilot Labs via Copilot Audio Expressions: Now, when you select Story Mode, Audio Expressions will use MAI-Image-1 to visualize your story with a unique image.

Try it now in Bing Image Creator: Available at bing.com/create, in the Bing mobile app, or right from the Bing search bar.

Note: MAI-Image-1 is currently available in all countries that can access Bing Image Creator and Copilot Labs, excluding the EU at present.

Source: Microsoft Copilot Discord / Microsoft.ai

As seen above, you can give Copilot Audio Expressions a prompt and it will generate a story for you to listen to – the AI-generated image that appears above the audio player is the new addition, powered by MAI-Image-1. If you can’t think of a prompt, then the tool also generates a number of ideas to choose from, too. Audio Expressions covers a decent range of accents (only available in English) and styles.

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