Microsoft announced MAI-Image-2, a text-to-image generation model that ranks third on the Arena.ai leaderboard among research labs. The model is now available in the MAI Playground for testing, with rollout beginning on Copilot and Bing Image Creator. API access is available now for select Microsoft customers and will open to all developers on Microsoft Foundry soon. The model emphasizes three capabilities developed with input from photographers, designers, and visual storytellers: enhanced photorealism with natural lighting and accurate skin tones, reliable in-image text generation for infographics and diagrams, and rich scene generation for surreal and cinematic compositions. Microsoft positions MAI-Image-2 as reducing post-production work for creative workers by improving output quality. (Microsoft)
Apologies for being a bit sceptical, but I can’t help but wonder what makes this news relevant to ‘open education’ people. There’s nothing usefully open about this or anything Microsoft does. The fact that it has Microsoft’s name on it should signal to anyone interested in open-anything that it should be actively avoided, i.e. shunned.
Hi Aditya,
I tried MAI-Image-2 and it is too terrible.
Best regards,
Tamer Osman, MCIL CL / MCIEA / Membre de SFT/LSA Member