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Nando de Freitas
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Nando de Freitas
@NandoDF
MAI Superintelligence Team. Past: AlphaGo tuning, AlphaCode, Gato, ReST, learning to learn, awareness models, recurrent Gemma, Imagen3, Veo, Genie, MAI models
London, England Beigetreten Nisan 2009
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Microsoft’s MAI-Image-2 enters the top three AI image generators in the world thenextweb.com/news/microsoft… via @thenextweb
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and they can also mix concepts compositionally
“Un elefante rosa en hermoso Bariloche, Argentina”
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Mai-image: “Un pajaro Jabirú en Argentina”
Amazing how this and many models have so many visual concepts in them.
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The grok answer addresses your question about public licenses. I'd like to emphasise that the photographs that we purchase are essential to generate high quality artistic images. Now more than ever, photographers can profit by selling their images to companies like ours or many startups.
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@NandoDF Thank you! What does ‘legally available data’ mean?
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playground.microsoft.ai is now available in the USA and soon all over the world.
Today we unveil our image generation models. Soon everyone will have access to many more models to play with in our playground. Enjoy!
Wanna help build these models? JoinAITeam@microsoft.com - In particular, I'm looking for exceptional data, research and infra engineers.
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@ednewtonrex @grok please explain the different image licenses that exist for images on the web, and how to comply with them in order to train an image generation model.
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Microsoft just shipped MAI-Image-2.
They built it by talking to working photographers and designers first. Not researchers.
Enhanced photorealism that passes for real photos. In-image text that doesn't break. Complex scenes that hold together.
Available now in MAI Playground.
Rolling out on Copilot and Bing Image Creator.
API access opening to developers on Microsoft Foundry soon.
Satya Nadella@satyanadella
Great to see our new image model from our Superintelligence team rolling out in Copilot and coming soon to Foundry for enterprise customers.
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@ednewtonrex Legally available data and licensed data. For us trust is important.
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@Zero2Ten I agree. We preferred to err on the side of safety, but are working on it. Thanks for trying it and your great feedback 🙏
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@NandoDF The model is great, but the prompt moderation/censorship is atrocious.
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Great to see our new image model from our Superintelligence team rolling out in Copilot and coming soon to Foundry for enterprise customers.
Mustafa Suleyman@mustafasuleyman
Our new image generator MAI-Image-2 is out! Available now on MAI Playground for everything from lifelike realism to detailed infographics. Our team has been pushing immensely hard for this release, and we are now among the top models out there: #3 family on @arena. Check out the details in our blog: microsoft.ai/news/introduci… It's shipping soon in Copilot and Bing Image Creator, as well as Microsoft Foundry. Really proud of our progress on models and products - stay tuned for new releases and come join us on our Superintelligence mission!
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@victor_UWer Data work, and people with no ego, who know that working in teams is more effective ... and more fun.
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Super proud of our small image-gen team that in less than 6 months achieved this amazing result.
.... and they're already cooking the next one, but I'm encouraging them all to take a vacation😎
Microsoft AI@MicrosoftAI
Meet MAI‑Image‑2. Built with creatives, for real creative work. Ranked #5 on @arena’s text‑to‑image leaderboard. Available now: msft.it/6014QUCBe
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Let’s dive deeper into the massive improvements between MAI-Image-2 vs. MAI-Image-1 by @MicrosoftAI.
MAI-Image-2 shows significant gains across all sub-categories for Text-to-Image:
Gains across all 7 sub-categories in order of magnitude:
- Text Rendering (+115 pts)
- Portraits (+105 pts)
- Product, Branding & Commercial Design (+102 pts)
- Photorealistic & Cinematic Imagery (+97 pts)
- 3D Imaging & Modeling (+92 pts)
- Art (+87 pts)
- Cartoon, Anime & Fantasy (+81 pts)
Arena.ai@arena
MAI-Image-2 debuts at #5 in the Image Arena! Highlights: - #5 in Text-to-Image overall - #5 for 3D Imaging & Modeling, Cartoon, Anime & Fantasy, Photorealistic & Cinematic Imagery, Art and Portraits - #6 for Product, Branding & Commercial Design Congrats to the @MicrosoftAI team on this milestone!
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MAI-Image-2 debuts at #5 in the Image Arena!
Highlights:
- #5 in Text-to-Image overall
- #5 for 3D Imaging & Modeling, Cartoon, Anime & Fantasy, Photorealistic & Cinematic Imagery, Art and Portraits
- #6 for Product, Branding & Commercial Design
Congrats to the @MicrosoftAI team on this milestone!
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A new journey but with several old friends and some amazing people.
When I joined, image generation was an exceptional team but tiny. In H2 2025, we scaled quickly to ~10–15 people, with many joining in Q4. Just 3 months later, we built MAI-Image-2 — top 3 just behind Google and OpenAI.
It was our first serious attempt at nearly every part of the stack: new codebase, new data, new evals, new infra, first pretraining, first few post-training runs, etc.
What a fun journey to build something from the ground up again!
Microsoft AI@MicrosoftAI
Meet MAI‑Image‑2. Built with creatives, for real creative work. Ranked #5 on @arena’s text‑to‑image leaderboard. Available now: msft.it/6014QUCBe
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