Microsoft’s new image AI just cracked top 3 on a major leaderboard

The new MAI-Image-2 model is rolling out on Copilot and Bing Image Creator, with standout photorealism and text-in-image capabilities.
Decrypt

Microsoft Launches MAI-Image-2 Text-to-Image Model—And It's Better Than Expected

Microsoft's AI image generator offers impressive realism and text rendering, but strict content limits and 1:1-only output hold it back.
GizChina

AI Video Generator: How To Turn Text and Images Into Videos in Minutes

Certainly, one of the most interesting ways to enjoy this world of AI is through image or video generation. The second case is particularly special, after all, creating a video would be really complex ...
Wired

Hands On With Google’s Nano Banana Pro Image Generator

Corporate AI slop feels inescapable in 2025. From website banner ads to outdoor billboards, images generated by businesses using AI tools surround me. Hell, even the bar down the street posts happy ...
Engadget

Google's Nano Banana Pro image generator leverages Gemini 3 for improved visuals and text rendering

Google just unveiled its Nano Banana Pro image generation platform, which is also going by the name Gemini 3 Pro Image. The company promises this is an improvement over previous versions of the ...
CNN

Scientist turns people’s mental images into text using ‘mind-captioning’ technology

A scientist in Japan has developed a technique that uses brain scans and artificial intelligence to turn a person’s mental images into accurate, descriptive sentences. While there has been progress in ...
Reuters

Getty Images largely loses landmark UK lawsuit over AI image generator

LONDON, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Getty Images largely lost its London lawsuit against artificial intelligence company Stability AI over its image generator on Tuesday, prompting Getty and some lawyers to ...
MIT Technology Review

DeepSeek may have found a new way to improve AI’s ability to remember

Instead of using text tokens, the Chinese AI company is packing information into images. An AI model released by the Chinese AI company DeepSeek uses new techniques that could significantly improve AI ...
Forbes

The Surprising Idea That Generative AI Might Be Better Off Using Visual Images Of Text Rather Than Pure Text As Tokens

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. For anyone versed in the technical underpinnings of LLMs, this ...
ExtremeTech

Microsoft Launches MAI-Image-1, Its First In-House Text-to-Image AI Model

Microsoft has unveiled MAI-Image-1, its first text-to-image model fully developed in-house. MAI-Image-1 ranks among the top 10 models on the LMArena platform, meaning it delivers strong results when ...
Digital Trends

Microsoft AI debuts its Nano Banana rival, and it’s already a top text-to-image model

What’s happened? Microsoft AI has unveiled the slightly clunkily named MAI-Image-1, its in-house text-to-image system. The pitch is straightforward, generate useful pictures quickly, not flashy demos ...