Microsoft has had a big comeback with its latest AI announcements. For starters, it has a bunch of powerful models that you can use to generate high quality images, code, and develop voice applications. MAI-Image-2.5 produces detailed images from prompts. It also understands advanced prompting techniques (e.g. code-like prompts).
Seven new models launching at Build: let’s go!
Reasoning. Code. Image. Transcribe. Voice.Built from scratch on a clean data lineage, designed for efficiency, working seamlessly as a family of models
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MAI-Image-2.5 can be used to replace objects and update text. It ranks 3 for text to image and No. 2 on Arena’s image editing leaderboard. The company is also introducing Scout, which is an autopilot agent. It is integrated across Microsoft 365 apps. It is powered by OpenClaw and built with enterprise-grade security. It can connect to Teams, Outlook, OneDrive, and your data.
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