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MAI-Image-1

Microsoft · 13 October 2025

Microsoft's first in-house text-to-image model debuts in the top 10 on LMArena; rolled into Bing Image Creator and Copilot.

Added a self-trained image model next to DALL-E 3 and GPT-4o in Bing Image Creator, tuned for photorealism (lighting, reflections, landscapes) with input from creative professionals.

Date
Monday, 13 October 2025
Lab
Microsoft
Kind
model
Access
app only

Figures

MeasureValueMeasured by
LMArena text-to-imagetop 10 at debut
exact rank not given in the post
third-party

Sources

  1. microsoft.ai/news/introducing-mai-image-1-debuting-in-the-top-10-on-lmarena/

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