Microsoft today unveiled MAI-Image-1, its first image-generation model built entirely in-house. The model is designed to add genuine value for creators and is trained to avoid repetitive or generically stylized outputs.MAI-Image-1 is currently being tested in LMArena, a crowdsourced benchmarking platform that ranks AI models based on anonymous tests. We couldn’t test the model, but Microsoft says it’s currently among the top 10 text-to-image models on LMArena.This is the third homegrown AI model Microsoft has announced recently. The company announced its first two models, MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview, in August. MAI-Voice-1 generates an audio clip from a prompt, while MAI-1-preview is meant for text-based queries. Is Image generation a good thing for creators ?

