Microsoft AI today announced two new variants of its in-house AI models and a minor shift away from OpenAI's models.

Microsoft unveiled MAI-Image-2, a new AI model that achieved third place on the Arena.ai text-to-image generation leaderboard. PCWorld reports that the model excels at creating photorealistic images ...

The second version of Microsoft’s in-house image model lands at #3 on Arena.ai’s leaderboard, behind only Google and OpenAI, and begins rolling out across Copilot and Bing Image Creator today. A year ...

Microsoft's new MAI-Image-2.5 model bested Google's Nano Banana 2 on an important benchmark. But does that make it the right choice for you? Katelyn Chedraoui Reporter 2 Katelyn is a reporter with ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

Microsoft is positioning MAI-Image-2-Efficient and its flagship MAI-Image-2 as complementary tools rather than replacements for each other — a tiered pairing designed to cover the full spectrum of ...

Microsoft in May 2026 released MAI-Image-2-Efficient, a stripped-down version of its MAI-Image-2 image generation model built to lower costs and speed up output for enterprise customers. VentureBeat ...

Microsoft (MSFT) released a trio of new artificial intelligence models built in-house, which are available at competitive pricing, pushing them into direct competition with offerings from Google (GOOG ...

According to Microsoft, MAI-Image-2 offers improvements like “enhanced photorealism” and more reliable text generation in images. It’s rolling out now in Copilot and the Bing Image Creator. Follow ...

Microsoft Copilot now covers everything from free AI chat to Office tools and GPT-5.6-powered work features, so here’s how ...