Microsoft AI announces its first text-to-image generator

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00:00Microsoft AI announces its first text-to-image generator.

00:04Microsoft just dropped its first in-house text-to-image model, MAI ImageOne,

00:09and it's already strutting onto the AI stage like it owns the place.

00:12The model comes straight from Microsoft's own AI division,

00:16the same team behind MAI VoiceOne and the MAI One Preview Chatbot,

00:20and it's being billed as the next step on our journey.

00:23Microsoft's getting serious about doing AI art its own way.

00:27According to the company, MAI, ImageOne was built with a little help from creative professionals,

00:32whose feedback was used to make sure the model doesn't churn out the same overused AI aesthetic we've all seen a hundred times.

00:39Instead, it's said to excel at producing crisp, realistic images of things like lightning strikes,

00:45sweeping landscapes, and other photorealistic scenes, and it does it fast.

00:49Microsoft says MAI ImageOne processes prompts quicker than many larger, slower models,

00:55which is basically a polite way of saying,

00:57we're not dolly or mid-journey, but we're faster.

01:00The early results are promising.

01:02MAI ImageOne has already landed a top 10 ranking on LM Arena,

01:06the online battleground where people pit AI-generated images against each other and vote for their favorites.

01:13That's no small feat for a brand new model from a company that's still best known for Windows updates and Excel formulas.

01:19But the debut also comes at a complicated time for Microsoft's AI ambitions.

01:23The company has long been a major backer of OpenAI, yet the relationship has reportedly gotten a bit awkward.

01:30Recently, Microsoft even started using rival Anthropics models inside Microsoft 365 apps,

01:36signaling it's no longer putting all its eggs in one AI basket.

01:40Microsoft says MAI ImageOne is just the beginning of its push to build more AI models in-house,

01:46and it's promising to keep things safe and responsible.

01:49We haven't seen what those guardrails look like yet,

01:52but given how wild AI image generation can get, we'll be watching closely.

01:56Microsoft's AI and Microsoft Office Word Document MSWordDoc Word.org