Microsoft has unveiled its first natively built artificial intelligence image generation model, MAI-Image-1 on Monday in a blog post. The model made its public debut on the LMArena forum, entering the top 10 text-to-image models. Can it become a direct competitor to Google’s Gemini Nano Banana? Only time will tell, but the early rel=”nofollow” href=”https://microsoft.ai/news/introducing-mai-image-1-debuting-in-the-top-10-on-lmarena/” target=”_blank” class=”backlink” data-vars-page-type=”story” data-vars-link-type=”Manual” data-vars-anchor-text=”indications suggest”>indications suggest the tech giant is positioning itself for a serious run in the AI creative space.
“Purpose-built AI”
Since the start of 2025, class=”backlink” target=”_blank” href=”https://www.livemint.com/technology/tech-news/microsoft-ends-free-support-for-windows-10-from-october-14-upgrade-pay-or-switch-os-11760435200552.html” data-vars-page-type=”story” data-vars-link-type=”Manual” data-vars-anchor-text=”Microsoft”>Microsoft has been focused on developing in-house generative AI models under the…
